I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
To fix Panama, you need more than charisma and records: you need a program of action.
There's something about the tango that brings even more emotion out of the lyrics.
I think being born in Panama was a blessing because Panama is a port city. It's a really - the mentality is that - I remember that of admitting things in. You know, ports, ideas come in and out all the time.
My mother never finished elementary school. My father didn't, and that was a reality for many of us.
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.
You know, it was uncomfortable doing the same thing. I don't like a rut.
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.
So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.
And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.
A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.
I collected the 'Walking Dead' comics.
The first time I played was in Buenos Aires - was in 1983. The dictatorship was in position.
But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.
In general, both in Spanish and English, the quality of the entertainment media is horrible.
It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985.
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.
So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama.
Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.
It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.
