A Lot Of Times You're Just Conditioned

A Lot Of Times You're Just Conditioned By What's Around You.

But, When I Was About Thirteen, I Began To Sort Of Sing In My Neighborhood.

So That I Saw Music As A Way Of Documenting Realities From The Urban Cities Of Latin America.

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.

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.