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A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.
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Everyone comes back. It makes no difference how far we wander, we always have our country, our land, in our souls and our minds.
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My mother never finished elementary school. My father didn't, and that was a reality for many of us.
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Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.
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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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It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.
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In general, both in Spanish and English, the quality of the entertainment media is horrible.
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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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In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market.
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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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The first time I played was in Buenos Aires - was in 1983. The dictatorship was in position.
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I collected the 'Walking Dead' comics.
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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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It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985.
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So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama.
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To fix Panama, you need more than charisma and records: you need a program of action.
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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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Tortured characters are, I think, an actor's dream.
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Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.
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