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

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

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

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

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