It’s easy to undervalue how much joy music can bring into a life.
Rafael is a guitarist from Guantanamo, Cuba. He doesn’t have reliable access to the Internet, so a lot of the music that we take for granted has never made it into his ears. In this video, posted to YouTube by ATKFW, Rafael is encountering Stevie Ray Vaughan for the first time. Even with the video’s poor lighting, there’s no hiding the joy on his face or in his response to the music.
The little kid he’s hanging out with seems pretty stoked too.