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


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


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


"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."


"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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