Victor Ponce

Biography

Mexico City, in all of its magnificent contradictions, was the birthplace of Victor Ponce-Juarez. His early life was marked by poverty, child labor and constant harassment by the judiciales, but also by exposure to the cosmopolitan musical influences of a major world capital -- everything from salsa, cumbia, boleros and danzon to blues, jazz and classical music. Most of all, classic American-style rock-and-roll permeated the airways and echoed through the streets.

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