There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice versa.
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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.Ruben Blades
So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.
Ruben Blades
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.
Ruben Blades
People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.
Ruben Blades
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.
Ruben Blades
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
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