Panamanian - Musician | July 16, 1948 -
What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off.
Ruben Blades
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They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.
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In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market.
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Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.
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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.
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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.
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I decided we should book ourselves, so I started booking the band.
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We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.
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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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People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.
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A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.
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You know, it was uncomfortable doing the same thing. I don't like a rut.
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