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

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And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.

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

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What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off.

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

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

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

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In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market.

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It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.

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So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.

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