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

Ruben Blades, Panamanian Musician

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

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Ruben Blades, Panamanian Musician

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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."

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

"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."

"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 didn't have any money to begin with."

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

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

"I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance."

"So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America."

"And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day."

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

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