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.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

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.

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.

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

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.

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