Paulito stated that during Cuba's economic crisis of the mid-1990s, known as the Special Period, timba music provided an opportunity “to forget the shortages, the cutoff electricity, the bad transportation, to find refuge” (Vaughan 2012: 10).
In early 2006 he joined the group Paulo FG and Elite and also performed in the Festival Internacional de Cali in Colombia, sharing the stage with Maelo Ruíz.