The first time I came to New York was 1969. I came because the university, the National University of Panama, had been closed by the military.
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It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.Ruben Blades
So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama.
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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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We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.
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There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.
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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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