Elson Trinidad was flipping channels late one night when he came a cross an informercial selling a DVD called "Learn To Play The Piano In 7 Days!" Six days later, Elson ran hurriedly to his friends from Room to Improv and anxiously shouted, "Look! Look!" where he commenced to play an awkward rendition of "Chopsticks" for the next 37 minutes. "Perfect!" his improv-inclined friends said, and soon drafted him to be Room to Improv's musical accompanist.
He includes winning a copy of the "Footloose" original soundtrack album on a radio station contest in 1985 and fending off a pack of wolves with his iPod as some of his greatest achievements. After a few drinks, he might tend to boast about having been a techno artist, singing in a gospel choir or being the singer of an R&B band, but you know now that it's really just the alcohol kicking in.