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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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"In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since."

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


"The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city."


"I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs."


"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."


"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 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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