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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Documenting
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- Nov 07, 2020
So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone has a black guy inside them. Mine is a Cuban sonero who is 80-something years old and sings better than I do. His name is Medoro Madera. Medoro has been recording since 1997.
- Comics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I collected the 'Walking Dead' comics.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really think that music itself, being one of the greatest possible vehicles for mass communication, should be probed to its extremes, to see how effective it can actually become, which is one of the reasons why I became also interested in presenting political points of view.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother never finished elementary school. My father didn't, and that was a reality for many of us.
- Everybody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not everybody goes to government to serve themselves and not their country.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something about the tango that brings even more emotion out of the lyrics.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tango was very popular in Panama at the time when I was growing up. In the Fifties in Panama, the radio stations played all types of music.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never particularly a part of the following of tango; I just liked it... most of all, I recognized that the urban content and the approach seemed very familiar and very connected to the songs that I was doing, the kind of songs that I wanted to write - the songs about the street.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time I played was in Buenos Aires - was in 1983. The dictatorship was in position.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always interested in trying to find how different genres would affect the lyrics that I'd written. Salsa is where most of my songs have been recorded, the genre of salsa. It's very frenetic, fast-paced. And I felt that the lyrics sometimes were being lost.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
To fix Panama, you need more than charisma and records: you need a program of action.
- General
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general, both in Spanish and English, the quality of the entertainment media is horrible.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
At a certain point, people in Panama thought that everything was going to be solved as soon as Noriega was gone. Of course, the disappointment was huge.
- Product
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't accept ideologies that are not a product of consensus. I don't have an ideology, but I do have a sense of what's right and what's wrong.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, I would like to be considered for roles that are well-written. I think that part of the problem that we've had as actors is that they insist on looking at us as Latino actors and not as actors, period.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tortured characters are, I think, an actor's dream.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.
- Neighborhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.
- Ever
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- Nov 07, 2020
So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020