Ruben Blades's Profile
Brief about Ruben Blades: By info that we know Ruben Blades was born at 1948-07-16. And also Ruben Blades is Panamanian Musician.
Some Ruben Blades's quotes. Goto "Ruben Blades's quotation" section for more.And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez.
Tags: Here, Maybe, SeenI didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs.
Tags: Interested, Speak, StoryI 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.
Tags: Pretty, Respect, SenseI 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.
Tags: America, American, PoliticalSo 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.
Tags: Family, Money, WhileSo 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.
Tags: Again, End, SureThe 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.
Tags: Life, Mother, StudentWhat 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.
Tags: Another, Mean, MusicI think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
Tags: Best, Knowledge, SocietyIt doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.
Tags: Law, Place, SenseYou know, it was uncomfortable doing the same thing. I don't like a rut.
Tags: RutEvery band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.
Tags: Band, Music, PrettyA lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.
Tags: TimesAnd music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.
Tags: Lives, Music, RadioBut, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.
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