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.
From Ruben Blades
Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
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.
Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.
So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.
I think being born in Panama was a blessing because Panama is a port city. It's a really - the mentality is that - I remember that of admitting things in. You know, ports, ideas come in and out all the time.
I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.
So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama.
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.
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