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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

Life

Professional

Songs

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You

" In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market. "

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" I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang. "

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Interesting

" So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America. "

" There's something about the tango that brings even more emotion out of the lyrics. "

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Think

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Ruben Blades

Music

Interesting

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Ruben Blades

People

Off

" So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama. "

" At a certain point, people in Panama thought that everything was going to be solved as soon as Noriega was gone. Of course, the disappointment was huge. "

" Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69. "

" I was never particularly a part of the following of tango; I just liked it... most of all, I recognized that the urban content and the approach seemed very familiar and very connected to the songs that I was doing, the kind of songs that I wanted to write - the songs about the street. "

" Not everybody goes to government to serve themselves and not their country. "

" 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. "

" It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here. "

" 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. "

" Tango was very popular in Panama at the time when I was growing up. In the Fifties in Panama, the radio stations played all types of music. "

" 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. "