Basically, I would like to be considered for roles that are well-written. I think that part of the problem that we’ve had as actors is that they insist on looking at us as Latino actors and not as actors, period. Ruben Blades Read Quote
There’s something about the tango that brings even more emotion out of the lyrics. Ruben Blades Read Quote
I really think that music itself, being one of the greatest possible vehicles for mass communication, should be probed to its extremes, to see how effective it can actually become, which is one of the reasons why I became also interested in presenting political points of view. Ruben Blades Read Quote
My mother never finished elementary school. My father didn’t, and that was a reality for many of us. Ruben Blades Read Quote
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. Ruben Blades Read Quote
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. Ruben Blades Read Quote
The first time I played was in Buenos Aires – was in 1983. The dictatorship was in position. Ruben Blades Read Quote
I was always interested in trying to find how different genres would affect the lyrics that I’d written. Salsa is where most of my songs have been recorded, the genre of salsa. It’s very frenetic, fast-paced. And I felt that the lyrics sometimes were being lost. Ruben Blades Read Quote
