Raul Malo

Foolish heart, you made me weep.

Foolish heart, I'm yours too.

Don't set me free There was a time

Thank you.

Sure, it still does sometimes.

But, you know, I never gave it a second thought.

I mean, it is what I love to do, and my parents...

certainly have supported me in doing so.

I grew up in a pretty musical household, so there was all kinds of music around, always.

We listened to everything from Hank Williams to Celia Cruz to Sam Cooke to Bobby Darin.

It didn't matter.

It was a good neighborhood.

You know, it's Cuban immigrant neighborhood and not very rough, but hardworking people, blue collar people working every day for a living, you know, just trying to you know, just trying to stay in the game.

It was pretty wild, actually.

You know, there wasn't a lot of country music, to say the least.

I think we were the only country band actually playing in these clubs.

They were original music clubs, which was the good thing.

Well, they were clubs that allowed the bands to come in and play their original music instead of, you know, instead of bands coming in and doing like four sets of covers, you know, all night.

So at the time, you know, we were allowed.

to certain creative freedoms, you know, where you could basically go on stage and play whatever you wanted.