There was once a time when Charlie Bernardo stood upon the precipice of a recording contract. The offers were there, lucrative ones at that, all he had to do was say “yes.” But something didn’t feel right for Bernardo, the seventh of 10 children born to Cuban parents who immigrated to the U.S. just before Fidel Castro took power. Back then, in 2002, he was a solo artist. Perhaps it goes back to the rather crowded branch of his immediate family tree, but the one-man act wasn’t washing for him.
