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"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."
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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."

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

"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."

"I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America."

"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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