Rubén Blades
Rubén Blades was born in Panama City, Panamá Province, Panama on July 16th, 1948 and is the World Music Singer. At the age of 75, Rubén Blades biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna (born July 16, 1948), better known by the Spanish word "ru'blaes], but [a] in Panama and within the family's ranks, a Panamanian singer, songwriter, actor, guitarist, activist, and politician, who appears musically most often in the Afro-Cuban, salsa, and Latin jazz styles.
Blades brought the lyrical sophistication of Central American nueva canción and Cuban nueva trova, as well as experimental tempos and politically inspired Nuyorican salsa to his music, as well as politically inspired Nuyorican salsa, "thinking people" (salsa) dance music.
Blades has written scores of hit songs, including "Pedro Navaja" and "El Cantante" (which became Héctor Lavoe's signature song).
He has received nine Grammy Awards out of a total of seventeen nominations and five Latin Grammy Awards, as well as several years of break to concentrate on other projects.
He appeared in films including Crossover Dreams (1985), The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), Predator 2 (1992), The Counselor (2013), and Hands of Stone (2016), as well as three Emmy Award nominations for his roles in The Josephine Baker Story (1991), Crazy From the Heart (1992) and The Maldonado Miracle (2004).
He portrayed Daniel Salazar, a main character on the television series Fear the Walking Dead (2015–2017; 2019–present). He is a hero in Panama and is much admired throughout Latin America and Spain, and he gained 17% of the vote in 1994's failed attempt to regain the Panamanian presidency.
He was named minister of tourism by Panamanian President Martn Torrijos for a five-year term in September 2004.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts' Law degree from the University of Panama and an LL.M. in International Law from Harvard University.
Luba Mason, a singer, is married to him.
Family history and early life
Blades were born in Panama City, Panama. He is the son of Cuban musician and actress Anoland Daz (real surname Bellido de Luna) and Colombian Rubén Daro Blades, Sr., an athlete, percussionist, and graduate of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in Washington, D.C. His mother, Juan Bellido de Luna, was instrumental in the Cuban revolution against Spain and a writer and publisher in New York City. Rubén Blades, the Blades' paternal grandfather, was an English-speaking native of St. Lucia who came to Panama as an accountant. His family is uncertain how the Blades family came to St. Lucia, but his grandfather lived in Bocas del Toro Province when he moved to Panama. In the song "West Indian Man" on the album Amor y Control ("That's where the Blades come from") (1992), Blades thought his grandfather had to Panama to work on the Panama Canal. In his web show De Ruben Blades, he reveals the source and pronunciation () of his family's surname, which is of English origin.
In Blades' early days, he appeared as a vocalist in Los Salvajes del Ritmo as well as a songwriter and guest singer with a professional Latin music ensemble (ensemble), but Bush y sus Magnificos. The Joe Cuba sextet and Cheo Feliciano's singing style imitated his vocal tone and vocal range, creating his day's greatest influence.
Career
Blades obtained degrees in political science and law at Universidad Nacional de Panamá and gained experience as a law student at the Bank of Panama. He immigrated to the United States and remained with his exiled parents in Miami, Florida, before moving to New York City in 1974. "While working at Fania," Andy Harlow said, "he used to sleep on my couch." (Records) I used to say, "I write songs, too."
De Panamá a New York's first recording in the United States of America was his debut album with the Pete Rodriguez Orchestra, which featured original compositions like "Juan Gonzalez," "Descarga Caliente," and "De Panamá a New York," which were released in New York City by Alegre Records in 1970. He then returned to Panamá and finished his degree.
Blades began writing songs in New York City while working in Fania Records' mailroom. Sooner, the Blades were working with salseros Ray Barretto and Larry Harlow. The Blades began collaborating with trombonist and bandleader Willie Colón shortly after. They recorded many albums together and appeared on albums by plena singer Mon Rivera and the Fania All Stars.
Blades' first big success was a song on his 1977 album Metiendo Mano: "Pablo Pueblo," a reflection about a working-class father who returns to his house after a long day of work. When he ran for president of Panama, the song became his unofficial campaign song. In several Caribbean countries, the Colón and Blades recording, which dealt with Tite Curet Alonso's composition "Plantación Adentro," which dealt with the brutal treatment of Indian natives in Latin America's colonial times, was a hit. He wrote and performed numerous songs with the Fania All Stars and as a guest on other artists' debuts, including "Paula C," about a party animal who buries his sorrow for a lost love in dance and drink; and "Sin Tu Cario," a love song with a bomba break. The pianist Papo Lucca of Puerto Rico performs piano solos in the latter two songs.
Blades wrote "El Cantante" in 1978; Colón begged him not to play the song, "El Cantante de los Cantantes" ("the singer of singers"). Lavoe premiered it in the same year and became both a big hit and Lavoe's signature song; El Cantante, a documentary film about Lavoe, was released the same name. (The film El Cantante, starring executive producer Marc Anthony and later wife Jennifer López, told a fictionalized version of this tale, in which Blades informs Lavoe he composed the song for him.)
Siembra (1978) by Colón and Blades was the best-selling salsa album in history. It has sold more than 25 million copies, and almost all of its songs have been hits in various Latin American countries at one point or another. "Pedro Navaja," a song influenced by the 1928 film "Mack the Knife," tells the tale of a neighborhood thug who is killed by a street walker who knows him (he stabs her and shoots him), they die, a bum finds them and steals their possessions, and a burglar finds them. The song influenced two movies, La verdadera historia de Pedro Navaja, and Pedro Navaja, a 1984 Mexican film, neither of which had Blades in involvement. Blades wrote and performed "Sorpresas," (surprises) on his 1985 album Escenas, which revealed Pedro had survived the fire and was still alive.
Blades became dissatisfied with Fania and tried to terminate his employment, but they were legally bound to release multiple more albums. Maestra Vida and its sequel Canciones del Solar de los Aburridos are highlights.
Blades appeared in The Last Fight in 1982, portraying a singer-turned-boxer fighting for a championship against a fighter played by real-life world champion boxer Salvador Sánchez. Buscando América was released in 1984, and Blades became well-known as co-writer and actor of the independent film Crossover Dreams as a New York salsa singer determined to break into mainstream. Blades also worked on soundtracks, and he began his career in film scoring. He obtained a master's degree in international law from Harvard Law School in 1985. He was the subject of Robert Mugge's documentary The Return of Rubén Blades, which premiered at the Denver Film Festival in 1999. Morley Safer interviewed him while recording a segment for the 60 Minutes television show.
Blades left Fania in 1984 and signed with Elektra, but Fania continued to publish recordings obtained from their archives for many years afterwards. The Blades assembled a top-notch band (known variously as Seis del Solar or Son del Solar) and began touring and recording with them. Escenas, his first album with them, received the Best Tropical Latin Album award from Blades (1985). In 1987, he released the album Agua de Luna, which was based on writer Gabriel Garca Márquez's short stories. "Don't Double Cross the Ones You Love" – Sidney Lumet's 1990 crime drama film Q & A, appeared in the opening and closing credits; his "Believery" aka its main chorus "Don't Double Cross the Ones You Love" appeared in the opening and closing credits of his 1990 crime drama film Q & A, which also received a Grammy Award in 1988.
He appeared in films and continued to record Seis/Son del Solar during the 1990s. In 1994, he ran unsuccessful Panamanian presidential bid, founding the opposition, Movimiento Papa Egoró. La Rosa de los Vientos, the album that came after this event, was titled. Pena and Amor y Control, two award-winning musicians, were also recognized for Best Tropical Latin Performance in 1997, and all of the songs were composed by Panamanian songwriters. Blades and Son Miserables performed "No Te Miento (I Am Not Lying [to you])" for the AIDS charity album Silencio=Muerte, a Red Hot + Latin produced by the Red Hot Organization in 1996. Blades appeared in Sean Andre's first Broadway show The Capeman, based on a true tale of a troubled youth who becomes a poet in jail, which also starred Marc Anthony and Ednita Nazario. The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), The Two Jakes (1990), Predator 2 (1990), Mo' Better Blues (1990), and Devil's Own (1997). "El Mundo Gira" ("As The World Turns"), he also appeared in an amusing episode of The X Files ("As The World Turns"). Conrad Lozano, a rural California migrant agent and El Chupacabra's Mexican folklore, worked with Mulder and Scully to solve unexplained murders involving both rural California migrant workers and the Mexican folklore of El Chupacabra, and the Mexican folklore of El Chupacabra. Diego Rivera, a Mexican artist who appeared in Tim Robbins' Cradle Will Rock, 1999, appeared. Johnny Depp, Antonio Banderas, and Willem Dafoe appeared in the 2003 film Once Upon a Time in Mexico, starring Willem Dafoe and Willem Dafoe.
Tiempos, Blades' 1999 album, which he performed with musicians from Editus and Sexteto de Jazz Latino, was a departure from his salsa experience and a further rejection of Latin music's commercial trends. The album received a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album, which was ironically. Blades were inducted into the International Latin Music Hall of Fame in 2001. The 2002 album Mundo, with the 11-member Editus Ensemble and bagpiper Eric Rigler, which combined instruments from around the world, was even more eclectic. Mundo was named for the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album and was also nominated for the Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year. The Blades were invited by world music artist Derek Trucks' album, Joyful Noise, the same year. He began following Mundo with a free-download scheme in 2003. At the 2005 ASCAP Latin Awards, Blades was presented with the Founders Award. He put his artistic career on hold when he began serving as Panama's tourism minister in 2004. Blades returned to his artistic work in June 2007, hosting an online TV show Show de Ruben Blades (SDRB).
He received an honorary degree from Berklee College of Music in November 2005.
Willie Colón, his ex bandmate, was sued by the Blades in May 2007 for breach of contract. A string of suits and countersuits lasted more than five years. Robert J. Morgalo, Blades' former agent, wrote Decisiones, a book that delves into the inside story of this court war and was released in English and Spanish in 2016.
In the middle of 2008, he took a leave of absence for a mini-tour in Europe, backed by Costa Rican band Son de Tikizia. He reunited the Seis del Solar staff for the 25th anniversary of Buscando América in an exciting tour of the Americas when his government service was complete in June 2009.
ASCAP and WhyHunger awarded Blades the Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award in June 2011.
Blades, the closing act for the Festival Internacional Cervantino in Mexico in 2014, was Blades.
Blades' album Tangos received a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album in 2015.
Blades has expressed his desire to run for president of Panama again in 2019.
Blades appeared in the AMC's post-apocalyptic drama Fear the Walking Dead, a companion series to The Walking Dead, in 2015. In the second episode of "So Close, But So Far," Blades first appear.
Blades appeared on "Almost Like Praying" in Lin-Manuel Miranda's charity single "Almost Like Praying" in 2017 to raise funds for Hurricane Maria victims.
In September 2018, Blades was named as the Inaugural Scholar-in-Residence at New York University.
Blades was named the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year in 2021 for his contributions to Latin music and activism.