SevenVenues March 2019 SevenVenues Newsletter - Spring | Page 3

3 EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHT: EASY COME, EASY GO.
Emiliano “Easy” Salcedo
Operations Crew Member II
His name is Emiliano Norberto
Salcedo Herrera.
As a student at Granby High School,
“They used to call me Paco.”
Today, we know him as Easy.
He’s quick to smile, familial,
optimistic. The moniker? It fits.
“I’m easy to talk to, an easy
person to get along with,” he said.
But, he insists, the name was self-
appointed, less a testament to his
nature, and more a matter of …
people getting it mostly wrong,
most of the time. “I have a long,
Hispanic name.” Teachers, friends,
colleagues—they never got it quite
right, the pronunciation always
misremembered or reinvented,
reimagined in shorthand. Finally, “I
said, call me Easy, please. Just Easy.”
And he’s been Easy ever since.
Born in Panama, Emiliano moved
to the US at five, settled with his
sister in NYC, and, later, Virginia. “I
came to the states at a young age.
At that time, in Panama, Noriega
was in power. There was violence—
[my mom] didn’t want me there,”
in the mix; during the 1989-90
US invasion of Panama, de facto
Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega
was deposed and the Panamanian
Defense Force dissolved.
Easy stayed on in the states, his
mother visiting every year (he was
always her favorite, and, he likes
to tell his sisters, “that’s not my
fault.”). He still has family in New
York, Florida, Virginia and Panama.
Easy returned to Virginia five
years ago, after living and working
up and down the East Coast, from
New York to Florida.
From early on, it would seem,
Easy has been hard at work; he’s
got a big, full, busy life. From
SevenVenues’ staging (and a
second job, too), to staying fit, to
spending time with his wife and
three children—there’s really no
time for down time.
“My youngest son is six months,
my daughter is four, and my oldest
is nine. Two boys and a girl. That’s
it for us though,” he said. Like all
good kids, they wake him early
when he works the night shift; his
daughter has him wrapped around
her little finger. “I thought, nah,
I’m going to raise her up nice and
tough—” but then she hits him with
that look, and discipline is a distant
memory—“Don’t tell your mother.”
How does he manage the 24-7
cycle—an infant, long hours, and
everything in between? “I always
say, everything will work out.”
Easy enough.
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