I Love Gershwin. I Love Musicals.

My Family Was Musical On Both Sides. My Father’s Family Had A Famous Flautist And A Classical Pianist. My Mother Won A Contest To Be Shirley Temple’s Double — She Was The Diva Of The Family. At 8, I Learned How To Play Guitar. I Used To Play Songs From The ‘20s, ‘30s And ‘40s In The Kitchen For My Grandmother.

I Majored In Psychology In College. I Was Going To Be A Child Psychologist.

There Are So Many Beautiful Things That Are A Part Of The World, And Ive Always Looked At Life That Way; Ive Always Tried To Put On A Smile And A Brave Front, Not Just For My Kids But In My Own Life And All The Difficulties That Ive Gone Through.

The Music Is One Of The Beautiful Things That Has Survived The Castro Regime. I Have Played For Audiences All Over The World But I've Never Played For A Cuban Audience. For [husband] Emilio And Me, The Music Is The One Tie To Our Homeland.

I've Sung Since I Talked, When I'm Two, But What I Sang Was Ballads, Because It's Very Hard To Do A Dance Track With Your Little Acoustic Guitar When You're A Kid.