It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985.
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I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.
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I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe.
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So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.
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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.
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I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.
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