sentence: since he was tall for his age ( and had a booming bass voice , which was the deepest one of any local radio personality at the time he became a broadcaster ) , gilbert could sneak in clubs at an age as early as thirteen years-old , which allowed him to visit relatives in new york city and sneak into live presentations by tommy dorsey and xavier cugat ( who caught him playing bongo drum onstage with the band unsupervised once , and later became a friend ) .