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Ruben Blades Biography

Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna (born July 16, 1948), known professionally as Rubén Blades (Spanish: [ruˈβem ˈblaðes], but [ˈbleðz] in Panama and within the family), is a Panamanian singer, songwriter, actor, musician, activist, and politician, performing musically most often in the Afro-Cuban, salsa, and Latin jazz genres. As a songwriter, Blades brought the lyrical sophistication of Central American nueva canción and Cuban nueva trova as well as experimental tempos and politically inspired Nuyorican salsa to his music, creating "thinking persons' (salsa) dance music".

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A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.

Conditioned, Times

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.

House, Law, Lawyer, Place, Sense

They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.

Making, Making Money, Money, Nickel, Nickels, Ton

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.

Latin, New York, Number, Think, Thinking, York

There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.

Everything, Provided, Radio, Television

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Education, Ignorance, Thinking, Society, Think

And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.

Important, Lives, Music, Our Lives, Part, Radio

Every 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.

Copying, Dancing, Pretty, Rhythmic, Sound

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.

Come, Happenings, Latin, New York, Political, Views

What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off.

Accept, Fact, Facts, People, Talent, Talents

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

Kids, Mother, Opera, Remember, Sang, Singing

There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice versa.

Heard, Musician, Musicians, New Orleans, Orleans, Vices

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.

Cities, Latin, Reality, Saw, Urban, Way

I 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.

Drug, Interested, People, Speak, Stories

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.

Neighborhood, Sing, Sort, Thirteen

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

Credit, Gives, Giving, People

Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.

Generation, Generations, Oriented, Rocks, Young, Youth

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.

Came, Miami, New York, Think, Thinking

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.

Albums, Came, Firsts, Maybe, New York, Rodriguez

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.

Cuba, Interesting, Mean, New Orleans, Orleans