People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

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.

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.

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

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

Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.