Early Life
Monteiro grew up in a family that loved music where both his parents played musical instruments and both his sisters, the piano. He took piano lessons at a young age and eventually attained a Grade 8 music certification. He is drawn to jazz due to the music's spontaneity and influenced by friends who were making money moonlighting in Chinese nightclubs.
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