Panamanian - Musician | July 16, 1948 -
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
Ruben Blades
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And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.
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There's something about the tango that brings even more emotion out of the lyrics.
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I think being born in Panama was a blessing because Panama is a port city. It's a really - the mentality is that - I remember that of admitting things in. You know, ports, ideas come in and out all the time.
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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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So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.
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I'm planning to retire from salsa. I'm planning to do a farewell tour.
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Tango was very popular in Panama at the time when I was growing up. In the Fifties in Panama, the radio stations played all types of music.
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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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Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.
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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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I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.
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