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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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There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.
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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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I decided we should book ourselves, so I started booking the band.
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We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.
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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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So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.
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