Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.

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

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.

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

Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.

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

There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice versa.