Era la idea más triste y solitaria que jamás había imaginado.

Así recuerda el director de la escuela, Roberto Conlazo, que se presentó Tomasín, a pesar de que hasta ese momento, jamás había tocado una batería profesional.

They chanted “No me excluyas” — which translates to “Don’t exclude me” — and “El pueblo unido jamás será vencido” — which translates to “The people united will never be defeated.”

Yet his stature in the field is immense, with contributions to the piano repertoire like “The People United Will Never Be Defeated!” — a titanic set of variations on Sergio Ortega and Quilapayún’s Chilean resistance song “¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!”

Prince Jamas, 56, has been driving for a car service and for Uber since losing a construction job at the start of the pandemic.