La India

I used to be so embarrassed by salsa; I wasn't into it.

Women see me as a figure they can respect. They know I've been through a lot. I'm not going to let no man put me under.

I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.