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. Ruben Blades Read Quote
It’s almost as if people think that in Latin America we’re not hip to what’s happening here. Ruben Blades Read Quote
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. Ruben Blades Read Quote
So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I’m not going to be a lawyer under a military regime. Ruben Blades Read Quote
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. Ruben Blades Read Quote
I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe. Ruben Blades Read Quote
What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another. Ruben Blades Read Quote
I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang. Ruben Blades Read Quote