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.

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

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

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

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

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

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.