A biography for Ruben Bladeshasn’t been written yet.
“The first time I played was in Buenos Aires - was in 1983. The dictatorship was in position.”
“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.”
“To fix Panama, you need more than charisma and records: you need a program of action.”
“In general, both in Spanish and English, the quality of the entertainment media is horrible.”
“I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe.”
“People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.”
“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.”
“It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.”
“Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.”
“Not everybody goes to government to serve themselves and not their country.”
“What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off.”