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

What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another.

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

Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.

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

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

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.