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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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