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Ruben Blades

"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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"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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"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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"And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day."
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"Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69."
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"So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami."
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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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"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 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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