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" To fix Panama, you need more than charisma and records: you need a program of action. "
Ruben Blades
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" It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985. "
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" 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. "
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" So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama. "
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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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" I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't accept ideologies that are not a product of consensus. I don't have an ideology, but I do have a sense of what's right and what's wrong. "
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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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July
" 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 a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang. "
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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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New
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" So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with. "
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Without
Family
Left
" 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. "
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Now
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" But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood. "
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" My mother never finished elementary school. My father didn't, and that was a reality for many of us. "
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" 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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