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We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.
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Ruben Blades
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 16
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Panamá
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Everyone comes back. It makes no difference how far we wander, we always have our country, our land, in our souls and our minds.
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So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.
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I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.
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So that when I came to New York again, it was, I'm not too sure right now, but it was '74 or '75. I went to Miami in '74 and then I came to New York, I think, at the end of '74.
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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.
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Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.
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What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off.
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I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs.
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I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.
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It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.
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What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another.
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And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez.
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And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.
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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.
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