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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They had seen me performing in Panama, but in Panama I had to quit performing because teachers in the national university were against my performing.Ruben Blades
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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A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.
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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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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 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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