>> my dad was persuaded to do this by his manager, whose name was carlos gastel.s gastel was cuban, and i guess he just felt that dad could do this, and that he and that he ended up being the first american, black or otherwise, male or female, to go overseas, period, to do this kind of music. he was, the response was - dad was over there in, like, '58 for that first spanish record, "cole espanol." the response was so huge he did two more records. he was in havana for the next 20 years. they still have a statue of him tavis: i've seen it. >> - in front of the nacional hotel. tavis: at the hotel de nacional. i've been there (unintelligible). >> it's just amazing. we were, my sisters and i were just going through pictures at the (unintelligible) museum last month of photos that my mom had donated. we had not seen these pictures before, and there are some amazing photos, tavis. you would just - there's when he was in south america, when he was in argentina, when he was in havana, and the crowd, just the adoration on their faces for this man is just, it's really someth