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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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"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 from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami."
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