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So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.

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What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off.

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They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.

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In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market.

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Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.

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I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.

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So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.

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The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city.

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I decided we should book ourselves, so I started booking the band.

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We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.

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Biography

Nationality: Panamanian

Type: Musician

Born: July 16th, 1948

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