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.

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

So that when I came to New York again, it was, I'm not too sure right now, but it was '74 or '75. I went to Miami in '74 and then I came to New York, I think, at the end of '74.

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

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

We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.

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