After three decades of leding his remarkable percussive skills to dozens of the most popular pop music, R&B and jazz artists of our time as a key participant on hundreds of recordings and in concert settings around the world, Steven Kroon returns once again to the sultry Latin jazz style he grew up with. Born in Spanish Harlem to parents who had moved to New York City from their native Puerto Rico, Kroon's surname comes from his grandfather who emigrated to La Isla Del Encanto, from the Dutch-speaking Caribbean island of Curaçao. At the age of nine, the family moved to Queens, where the youngster's interest in music was further sparked by the presence of many noted jazz and R&B musicians