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"We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened."

Ruben Blades, Panamanian Musician
People, Dance
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"We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened."

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"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."
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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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"So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America."
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"But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people."

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