# Rubén Blades

> Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna, known professionally as Rubén Blades, is a Panamanian musician, singer, composer, actor, activist, and politician, performing musically most often in the 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 Son Cubano salsa to his music, creating "thinking persons' (salsa) dance music". Blades has written dozens of hit songs, including "Pedro Navaja" and "El Cantante". He has received 21 Grammy Award nominations, winning twelve of them, along with twelve Latin Grammy Awards.

*Panamanian musician (born 1948)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/ruben-blades

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Singer / Musician ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220))
- **Category:** Musicians
- **Country:** Panama
- **Born:** 1948
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
- **Fame score:** 69.6
- **Momentum:** 1.0
- **Country rank:** #1
- **Total followers across platforms:** 658,000

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/rubenblades (@rubenblades)
- **FACEBOOK**: https://www.facebook.com/Medoro.Madera.Oficial (@Medoro.Madera.Oficial)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001952/ (@nm0001952)
- **WEBSITE**: http://www.rubenblades.com/
- **YOUTUBE**: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvRzNVtjYH8fumDk6FvRiHQ (@@ruben.blades, 658,000 followers)

## Timeline
- **2026** - Billboard Music Award for Icon
- **2024** - Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Album
- **2020** - Latin Grammy Award for Best Tropical Song
- **2018** - Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts
- **2017** - Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year
- **2011** - Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album
- **2007** - Latin Grammy Hall of Fame
- **2001** - International Latin Music Hall of Fame
- **1948** - Born

## Sources
- [Rubén Blades](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2049)
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- [루벤 블라데스](https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A3%A8%EB%B2%A4_%EB%B8%94%EB%9D%BC%EB%8D%B0%EC%8A%A4)
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- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rub%C3%A9n_Blades)
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- [MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f050673a-dfb3-4200-b057-bf78213de36c)
- [Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/artist/90559)

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