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Ruben Blades

"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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"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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Ruben Blades
"We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened."

People

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Ruben Blades
"There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything."

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

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

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Ruben Blades
"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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Ruben Blades
"Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation."

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

Mother

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Ruben Blades
"So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama."

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Aberjhani

"Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot."

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Aberjhani

"In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since."

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Aberjhani

"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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Aberjhani

"I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse."

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