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

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.

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

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

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

So that when I came to New York again, it was, I'm not too sure right now, but it was '74 or '75. I went to Miami in '74 and then I came to New York, I think, at the end of '74.

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