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

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

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.

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

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