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And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.

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Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.

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But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.

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It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.

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So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama.

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Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.

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And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez.

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So that when I came to New York again, it was, I'm not too sure right now, but it was '74 or '75. I went to Miami in '74 and then I came to New York, I think, at the end of '74.

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So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.

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So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.

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Biography

Nationality: Panamanian

Type: Musician

Born: July 16th, 1948

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