Episode 5: Finding Shelter in Sound: Horacio’s Story

The Immigrant Perspective · Apr 8, 2026 · 56m

Horacio grew up in Sonsonate, El Salvador during a civil war. When his mother left for the US in 1981, he was six years old, and he wouldn't live with her again for eleven years. In the silence she left behind, he found the Beatles.

In this episode, Horacio shares how music became his refuge, what it was like to land in Miami as a teenager who didn't speak English, the surprising prejudice he encountered from other Hispanic immigrants, and how he eventually built a life in Atlanta with his American wife and twin daughters, named Sadie and Eleanor, after Beatles songs.

Horacio's memoir…