I think I am different from most blind people because my agility is not that of a blind person - I don't shuffle my feet when I walk. In fact, I have no, as I call them, 'blindisms.'
I was a teen idol in Latin America.
I became a teen idol. At the time, it embarrassed me.
I didn't have romances when I was in school. Girls didn't want to go out with me because I was blind.
I know Ritchie Valens in 1959 had 'La Bamba' but to be totally Spanish - because, you know, Ritchie didn't speak Spanish - but to be a total Latin artist like myself, to be out in a field where there weren't any categories for Latinos... I felt good that I was maybe - I didn't know it at the time - but I felt good that I opened the door.
People are really surprised by the fact that I keep in touch with the latest trends rather than retreating to the distant past.
