Born Guillermo Cuevas Carrión, he worked the turntables at Club Sept, and Le Palace before becoming the artistic director, first of Les Bains-Douches, then the Barrio Latino.
As a DJ, he was known for a mix featuring the funk and soul of the Philadelphia Sound, along with his connections to the world of high fashion.
The workshop was held at the National Theater of Cuba directed by Fermín Borges, other students included Eugenio Hernández, Gerardo Fulleda León, Ana Justina Cabrera, Santiago Ruiz and José Mario Rodríguez, many of whom have made names for themselves as playwrights and authors.
Fulleda León remembers the group hanging out for long hours after class in cafes or street corners to talk about essays, plays, ethnographies, stories and poems, or whatever they were working on.
In Paris you got to be seen at Maxim's The Palace The 7 and then go Chez Regine Champagne Caviar Haute-couture Expensive cars Saint Laurent and Loulou Rich ladies with a few bijoux.
[5] Paquita Paquin, a journalist and former club goer wrote in her recent memoirs: "At the end of the night, he would sometimes agree to put on some of our requests, but if not, would explain about balance, strength, and the rhythm he was looking for in his program that didn't always leave room for our endless hits.
The music was so sensational that it gave the impression that the Palace was a trampoline in the middle of the Atlantic : Let's All Chant by the Michael Zager Band was a hit in France at the same time as the U.S.
He said of his impressions, "It is completely sterilized, a ghetto for model agencies and Régine's emirs..." He described the clubgoers as "totally clean, beautiful, they look like they are fed on high quality corn.
The club sometimes held live concerts (Prince, Bette Midler, Divine, Tom Waits...), premiered films or showed clips during the music.
"[5] He put on Donna Summer, the Village People, and the Bee Gees, but would also slip in a few unknown pearls, or segments of something totally unexpected, like the helicopter sounds from the original soundtrack from the film Apocalypse Now, or a little bit of a Vivaldi concerto.