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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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Vera Miles

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

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Vera Miles

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

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

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"They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel."

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Ruben Blades
"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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Ruben Blades
"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."

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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."

America

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

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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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"What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off."

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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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