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

And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez.

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

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

So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.

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

There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.