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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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"I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe."
July

"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."
Life

"There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything."
Television

"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."
Music

"People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being."
People

"Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music."
Music

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

"So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama."
Panama

"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."
End

"It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985."
Germany
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