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Ruben Blades
July 16, 1948 -
Category: Musician

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.

   

In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market.

   

Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.

   

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

   

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.

   

It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.

   

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

   

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

   

So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama.

   

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

   

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

   

I decided we should book ourselves, so I started booking the band.

   

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.

   

It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985.

   

Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.

   

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.

   

You know, it was uncomfortable doing the same thing. I don't like a rut.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

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