Famed musician Arturo Sandoval was among those celebrated at the 47th Kennedy Center honors earlier this month, which aired last night on CBS.

But as a young boy in Cuba, Sandoval's rise to the top of the music world was inconceivable.

He has now won 10 Grammy Awards and performed the world over.

Jeff Bennett met up with Sandoval at the Pearl Street Warehouse in Washington, D.C. recently,

to talk about a life filled with music and paying and playing it forward.

It's part of our Archland Culture series, Canvas.

Canvas. Improvisation like this is what sets Arturo Sandoval apart, every note, a story unto itself,

transforming each of his performances into a one-of-a-kind masterpiece.

And whether entertaining audiences huge or small, he says he aims to engage at a very emotional level.

I love because I feel when I say,

man, this is so worthy, you know, that whatever I'm saying is penetrating their soul and they understand and we communicate.

Born into a poor family in Artemisa, a small village in the province of Havana, Cuba, the 75-year-old learned early what brought him joy,

enrolling in the Cuban National School of Arts and earning a place in the country's all-star national band.

What was your first introduction to music growing up in Cuba?

I started banging old lovers and you know, and everybody was so mad at me, my family, neighbors, everybody, you know, because I want to play it on top of everything.

But you know what's funny, nobody in my family before or after me had been involved with the music in any capacity.

Really? How did music find you then?

Oh, that's a good question for God.

Not for me.

The only thing I can assure you that music saved my butt.

How?

How?

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