Rubén Blades
Panamanian musician · Panama · On the map · Musicians · Born 1948 · age 78
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.
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Robert Rodriguez Directed Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
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Jonathan Jakubowicz Directed Hands of Stone and Secuestro Express
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Olga Merediz Also in The Milagro Beanfield War and The Super
Dean Wright Directed Cristiada (2012)
Brad Pitt Also in The Devil's Own and The Counselor
Jack Nicholson Directed The Two Jakes (1991)
Denzel Washington Also in Safe House and Mo' Better Blues
Peter O'Toole Also in Cristiada (2012)
Antonio Banderas Also in Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
Robert Redford Directed The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
Sting Duets: An Embrace of Hope
Ridley Scott Produced The Counselor (2013)
Robert Duvall Directed Assassination Tango (2002)
Sinéad O'Connor Duets: An Embrace of Hope
Christopher Walken Also in Homeboy and The Milagro Beanfield War
Harvey Weinstein Produced The Lemon Sisters (1992)
Alan J. Pakula Directed The Devil's Own (1997)
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, I like to think of it as like watching The Godfather...You might have seen it 1,000 times, but when it comes on it makes you stop.
There's a moment in everybody's life...where you have more past than future, and then you better start organizing your time. So I thought maybe this is the time to do this.
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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.
