Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.

They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.

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

Everyone comes back. It makes no difference how far we wander, we always have our country, our land, in our souls and our minds.

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.

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

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.