I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs.

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

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.

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

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

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

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