For our Global Hit today, meet saxophone player Jacques Schwarz-Bart.

Here's the title track from his latest CD "Sone' Ka La."

It may sound like Schwarz-Bart was born to play the saxophone.

He's the son of artists -- and he was into music as a kid growing up in Switzerland and the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.

But his first career was actually quite UN-musical.

Schwarz-Bart got into politics -- working as an aide to a French senator in Paris.

Then at 24 years old -- everything changed.

Schwarz-Bart says it happened during a trip to Guadeloupe, when he spotted a saxophone.

SCHWARZ-BART: I just picked up this horn that somebody had left at a friend's house and it was love at first sight. And here I was in this successful job, working in politics, making good money and my heart was absolutely not in it.

Meanwhile, I couldn't spend one minute without thinking of the saxophone, but I thought I was too old to do anything. Then I met some teachers from Berklee College of Music who were playing in Paris and they said, "Wow you have to come to Berklee."

Basically, I forgot my previous life and now I feel like a new born baby.