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He doesn’t remember how exactly the then-18-year-old came to work at Odyssey Records, Holzenthal’s tiny store in the Carrollton Shopping Plaza in Mid-City New Orleans. But he does remember hiring him.

The year was 1993. Khaled was skinnier, but not skinny. Baggy clothes hid a lumpy frame, and his eyes, coffee black, looked slightly melted, microwaved until just warm.

Holzenthal pulled him aside to fill out some paperwork his first day on the job.

“OK, give me your name.”