Quotes About Ruben Blades

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.

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.

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

I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe.

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