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How about my people?

My name is skinny knife

And I'm in the south of Bronx

in Prospect Avenue

here to take them a chine of sauce.

oh, to give it to me,

to give it to me, that give it to me in life.

and here in a chine of sauce,

We believe there is such a beautiful fight

between forgetting and remembering

It is good to do it while those people

are alive, If you think they deserve it

and want to pay tribute unleash in life

for that person

can enjoy it.

But how are you going to wait

that I after

Be writing music

since my 14 years,

until now that I have 91 years old

and I have written so much music

for both musicians and

300 and Pico de Recordaciones of my songs.

and that people still I don't know me

like Miguel Angel Amadeo

Composer of the

In addition to that, There were many more years,

because I started

At the age of 14, write

And today I have about 90

and I'm still writing.

Did you grow in Puerto Rico?

I was born in Puerto Rico,

that came to New York

at age 13, 1947.

I'm here since then.

You mention Rafael Hernández, in this letter.

Is there anything you want to say

about the importance of

Rafael Hernández in his life?

Rafael Hernandez is a man

that opened the doors, especially

to us Wealthy ports,

because he had the joy that

When you arrive at that time to Mexico,

and that your songs They put

in movies, that the movies run

in the whole world,

All Latin America.

in Latin American knew,

I did know some Cuba,

that it was for medium of the movies,

was not why artists

We were singing there,

or that they accepted from him,

Everything came through cinema.

And Rafael opened that door?

Yes, because Rafael is

first with your music,

What is really speaking,

as Agustín Lara was.

Agustín was a beautiful man, was that,

but wrote very nice,

and Rafael was the same.

and a question, How was the process and

Pana Mio Flaco

If you want to ask something?

but how was the process of

because the great combo

As you arrived to give the song

that give it to me in life to the combo

and not to the Sonora Ponsña or al ...

And what I would like to know, because

The great comdo came to me.

ah, they came where you?

So he asked what

I didn't have to go to them.

Didn't you have that

Sell the song to them?

that they knew what that was good.

ah.

Well, to us.

I have never sat down with Papo

to sit down 5 minutes.

The only time I

I was talking to him,

is a moment when brought it here,

that he had here in a place,

The person who came to take it to

The activity that had here at the Bronx,

passed through here,

For Casa Amadeo,

and he stayed in the car,

And I went out to the car and greeted him.

is not.

is the only time I

In life I have seen Papo.

Now, let me make you a question.

Yes.

Where did the sauce start?

Who started the sauce here?

The production of what

You call today sauce.

Where did it start And how did it start?

I, definite, I don't know.

ok.

Did you know a serious

What was called a cheerful record?

Yes.

You have heard a

Group that this server,

next to Charlie Palmyer,

founded on the same neighbor

for the joy of the 50,

is called Alegre Record.

The cheerful, the cheerful All Stars.

knew s that The cheerful All Stars

and I wrote the subject, of course,

because I was the

Alegre Records manager.

No, Wey.

wow.

and Cheo.

Cheo Feliciano.

I took to sing me A song

I was the VE ...

with the cheerful All Stars.

Then I was Pucci,

The first Tito Puente trumpet.

I was causing on the bass.

No, go to Mejodi r Odriguez on bass.

caci na.

Do you understand?

were the generals, that is,

A REGES meeting.

And that was the group happy all stars.

and the song I wrote says,

All are very happy,

because it comes to download

A group of generals

of the musical environment.

nice.

are the happy stars,

No one can match them,

without any doubt.

That is pure, right?

Thank you very much!

today was a wonderful experience

to be able to listen to Mike Amadeo

To be part of the story of the drama

that goes in Composer's Lives

And I'm also happy that they were

gave the flowers today

And that is what is the song Give it in life

with the great combo of the

two, to give it to me in life

and it's an experience

wonderful of all