Panamanian - Musician | July 16, 1948 -
There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.
Ruben Blades
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Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.
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But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.
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It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.
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So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama.
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Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.
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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.
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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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So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.
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So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.
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It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.
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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.
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