Ruben Blades

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang. ↗

— Ruben Blades

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I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe. ↗

— Ruben Blades

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I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America. ↗

— Ruben Blades

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In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#big #days #interest #labels #latin

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law. ↗

— Ruben Blades

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It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985. ↗

— Ruben Blades

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It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here. ↗

— Ruben Blades

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Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation. ↗

— Ruben Blades

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So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama. ↗

— Ruben Blades

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So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America. ↗

— Ruben Blades

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