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 m….

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime..

So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami..

Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation..

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….

There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice versa..

Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music..