This week, We Are Rhythm features percussionist Paoli Mejias in conversatoin with host Joey De Leon. Paoli is a distinguished master percussionist and Latin Grammy award nominee, who is ranked among the best in Latin jazz and salsa.

Renowned percussionist and composer Doug Hinrichs visits Jhair’s studio to talk about his diverse musical career, from his early days learning music in Nebraska to playing on Broadway, to traveling to Brazil to learn different styles of Brazilia.

This week on We Are Rhythm, Joey sits down with world percussionist Kassandra Kocoshis. They talk about her musical family and early beginnings as a musician, discovering flamenco, and how her impresssive career has evolved with each city and musical act.

Aaron Serfaty is a renowned drummer, percussionist, and educator at USC. He sits down with host Joey DeLeon to chat about his career that started at an early age, coming to the United States to learn swing, taking a teaching gig to provide for his family and why you should train your students to be better than you.

Percussionist & musician Damon Grant joins host Jhair Sala in his Rahway, NJ studio, to talk about learning how to play drums in middle school, the rigor required to be in drum corps, and the choice he had to make between baseball and music.

Host Joey De Leon is joined by Emmy- nominated musical director, producer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Peter Michael Escovedo.

Joey and Peter Michael talk about his famous family, his early days growing up in the Bay Area and why that part of the country was the perfect place to get a well rounded musical education. He talks about the latin jazz rock band that used to play in the family living room with his dad (Terry Bozio on drums, Neal Schon on guitar, and an occasional appearance by Carlos Santana), watching Marvin Gaye improv in front of a live audience while they were on tour, and why he’s always studying the position ahead of him.

The latest episode a family affair as host Joey DeLeon is joined by Father and son percussionists, Michael and Remi Spiro who discuss their unique perspective on exploring their passion for percussion from the outside in.

On the latest episode of the "We Are Rhythm" podcast, our host Joey Deleon and Brazilian-born percussionist Felipe Fraga chat about "kitchen table" percussion, baseball, Chicago-style hotdogs, learning to play the pandeiro from a trombone player  and Fraga's evolution from classical percussion purist to Brazilian Popular Music afficionado.#WeAreRhythm

Host Joey Deleon talks to multi-faceted producer, writer, percussionist and drumset player, Trevor Lawrence Jr., (aka TrevBeats) about his passion for making music and working with some of the biggest names in the industry including Dr. Dre, Mariah Carey, Lionel Richie, Macy Gray, Eminem, The Temptations and Herbie Hancock among others. 

For our first-ever "We Are Rhythm" podcast, our host Joey DeLeon is joined by Bronx-born conguero, Eddie Montalvo.

As real deal as it gets, Montalvo recalls the early days of his career where he found himself, "Coming out of a club at four o'clock in the morning and by seven o'clock..? I'm working in a manhole in New York City."  From the streets of NYC in the 1970's to working with legendary artists like Ruben Blades, Willie Colon, The New York Philharmonic and Celia Cruz among others -- Eddie Montalvo is Rhythm.