Read this article from Huffington Post.

“Don’t hold us in suspense!” After I published my first Huffington Post piece, “President Obama’s Arts,” on October 21, 2008, readers wanted to know what had happened to Mordecai Santiago – the ten-year-old boy from the Hell’s Kitchen projects who had a great talent for the piano, but no resources with which to pursue it. I’d deliberately left my audience uncertain of his destiny, implying that he might turn out to be “a great artist or a great criminal.” Now, I would like to set the record straight. Thanks to a marvelous public arts education and not-for-profit arts program, Mordecai is evolving into the former. “