Later that night, he recreated his routine on the dance floor — and the owner of the club took notice immediately.
"The owner of the disco said, ‘Will you do that every Friday?’" he said. "And I said, ‘Yeah, of course!’ because I was drunk.”
“Then they hired me, and I had to perform the next Friday.”
But Javier got the jitters before showtime — so, he called his mom for help.
“I was so nervous, I called my mom and my sister to accompany me to my striptease number,” he explained.
So his family joined him, as he danced to Joe Cocker's "You Can Leave Your Hat On" and wore "a tuxedo that I would open.”
“There was nobody — I think there were, like, three people there?" he recalled. "And it was very embarrassing, but I did it! I’m a performer, and I have my work.”
