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Zumba: Beto Perez & Alberto Perlman

How I Built This with Guy Raz

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Zumba Becomes Zumba

Alberto Perlman was living in Miami when he met Beto Perez, the man who invented Zumba. The pair decided to start a gym together but it didn't work out that way. In 2001, Alberto moved back to Colombia and started teaching his first class. He now runs one of the world's most popular dance gyms with other Cuban-Americans.

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