
Long before he was a percussionist for Pink Martini, Portland’s globe-trotting musical ambassadors, Martín Zarzar was quite the world citizen. Born in his mother’s native Peru but also strongly connected to his father’s Palistinian culture, as a small child he learned chess from a Vietnam veteran in Paris and remembers falling instantly in love with the bass at age 4 in Dartmouth, England, during a Stanley Clark solo performance.
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