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.
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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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We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.
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