# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruben-blades
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:02:31.237Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruben-blades"
name: "Rubén Blades"
slug: "ruben-blades"
description: "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."
tagline: "Panamanian musician (born 1948)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ruben_Blades_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
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birthDate: "1948-07-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 646000
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump