I think my earliest memory of Rodgers and Hammerstein was probably seeing “Sound of Music, ” you know, it would come on every year.

“The Sound of Music ” with Julie Andrews was on repeat in my household from the time I was in second grade.

“Sound of Music ” is always being played in the Philippines every Christmas and I never fail to watch it.

The whole family would sit down and watch that movie all together, literally for maybe ten years straight.

So I know almost every word.

As a little tiny boy being taken to the cinema by my mom and my dad and sitting there and the opening of “The Sound of Music.

” I've got goosebumps as we're talking about it, going through the clouds, going through down there, and there she is, the magnificent Dame Julie Andrews, doing a twirl, launching into the “Hills Are Alive.

” And I just sat there and I didn't move.

And I said to my mum, Can we go back again tomorrow?

We went repeatedly.

I had the record permanently playing.

I would perform every song for everybody at any opportunity at the drop of a hat.

It was magical.

The one song that we used to sing as a family was “Edelweiss.

” I had a music box that played “Edelweiss ” that my uncle gave me when I was a baby, and so “Edelweiss ” was playing in my, my nursery, Even though.

you know, we're from Korea, we had nothing to do with Austria.

You know, that was a song that crossed over and we would sing about this little white flower.

I wanted to be a Von Trapp family singer.

Why would those kids able to do it?

I want to be tearing down the curtains and making lederhosen.

It was what I was meant to do in life, and I honestly think it was kind of the thing that made me go, I want to do this.

I want to be part of this.