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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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