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

Ruben Blades, Panamanian Musician

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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."

"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."

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

"People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being."

"And, he'd 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."

"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."

"It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law."

"So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime."

"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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