After a brief scratch and the soft sound of static, the iconic vocals come in and the walls start shaking.
With the speakers blaring, the music can be heard down the hall and outside of his apartment building. But apparently, the neighbors don’t mind too much. In fact, they may have come to like it.
“They complain when there’s no noise,” said his nephew, Sebastian Toro.
With about 3,000 albums collected over the course of several decades, his entire collection is “in order, or I find nothing,” Restrepo said.
Growing up in Colombia and coming of age when many of the now classic rock acts were just considered rock, Restrepo has always had an affinity for music. Although he does not know how to play guitar, he sure knows how to hear it.
While listening to music in that room, he has come up with many ideas over the years that he has taken from his mind into the physical world. In…