Beto Perez: First North Miami gym audition drew 25 people for one hour
Beto Perez · Zumba: Beto Perez & Alberto Perlman · Jan 2, 2017 · at 4:21
Beto Perez, co-founder of Zumba, describes auditioning his dance-aerobics concept for a gym manager in Williams Island, North Miami.
0:00 / 0:13exact quote · 13.6s
720p mp4 · rendered on demand · StarZero watermark
“And they coming in, three people, four, five, six, and one moment I had like a 25 people, and people clap every song, and the audition it was for 15 minutes, and I danced for one hour.”
quote is from the automated transcript, cleaned for reading: filler sounds and stutters are removed, nothing is rephrased. names can be misheard (the analysis reads context, assessments check outside sources). how →
More from Beto Perez
Perez: Zumba began after forgetting aerobics tapes and using Latin music
“And the only music that I have with me in this moment, it was a cassette with Latin music, more cumbia, merengue, salsa, different kind of music.”
Beto Perez accidentally created Zumba after forgetting his aerobics music
“And the only music that I have with me in this moment, it was a cassette with Latin music, more cumbia, merengue, salsa, different kind of music.”
Perez: Kellogg's paid Zumba a $50,000 contract for cereal box DVDs
“Yeah, good contract. Like a 50 thousand dollar for the contract.”