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

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

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

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

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.

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

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