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

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  What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I

• Ruben Blades:

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

• Ruben Blades:

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Ruben Blades:

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