I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe.

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice versa.

I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs.

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

Everyone comes back. It makes no difference how far we wander, we always have our country, our land, in our souls and our minds.

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.