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Ruben Blades Facts

Ruben Blades Is Born On July 16, 1948
Ruben Blades Is Born In Panama City, Panama
Ruben Blades Nationality Is Panamanian
Ruben Blades Zodiac Sign Is Cancer
Ruben Blades Zodiac Symbol Is Crab
Ruben Blades Chinese Zodiac Element Is Yang Earth
Ruben Blades Chinese Zodiac Animal Is Rat
Ruben Blades Occupation Is Musician

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A lot of times youre just conditioned by whats around you. - Ruben Blades Quotes
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And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day. - Ruben Blades Quotes
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And, hed 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. - Ruben Blades Quotes
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And, we watched the Beatles one week after they showed up on the Ed Sullivan Show because of the U.S. Southern Command TV network. - Ruben Blades Quotes
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Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music. - Ruben Blades Quotes
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But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood. - Ruben Blades Quotes
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Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models. - Ruben Blades Quotes
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I decided we should book ourselves, so I started booking the band. - Ruben Blades Quotes
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I didnt do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I dont have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasnt interested in the people around the drugs. - Ruben Blades Quotes
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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. - Ruben Blades Quotes
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I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. - Ruben Blades Quotes
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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. - Ruben Blades Quotes
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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 Quotes
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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 Quotes
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In those days the big U.S. labels didnt have any particular interest in the Latin market. - Ruben Blades Quotes
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It doesnt make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law. - Ruben Blades Quotes
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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 Quotes
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Its almost as if people think that in Latin America were not hip to whats happening here. - Ruben Blades Quotes
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People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being. - Ruben Blades Quotes
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Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation. - Ruben Blades Quotes
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So I went to Miami in 74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didnt have any money to begin with. - Ruben Blades Quotes
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So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama. - Ruben Blades Quotes
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So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America. - Ruben Blades Quotes
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So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured Im not going to be a lawyer under a military regime. - Ruben Blades Quotes
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So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami. - Ruben Blades Quotes
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So that when I came to New York again, it was, Im 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. - Ruben Blades Quotes
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The first time I came to New York was 1969. I came because the university, the National University of Panama, had been closed by the military. - Ruben Blades Quotes
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The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city. - Ruben Blades Quotes
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There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice versa. - Ruben Blades Quotes
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There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything. - Ruben Blades Quotes
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