Rubén Blades
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1948-07-16
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Vida Te Da Sorpresas / Life Is Full of Surprises
- Nothing but the truth
- "Escenas"
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Panama City, Panama
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna (born July 16, 1948) is a Panamanian salsa singer, songwriter, lawyer, actor, Latin jazz musician, and politician, performing musically most often in the Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz genres. As songwriter, Blades brought the lyrical sophistication of Central American nueva canción and Cuban nueva trova as well as experimental…
Known for
- Campeón Gabacho2026
- Salsa Lives — Ruben Blades2025
- Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple — Self2024
- Stay Homas. The Band That Shouldn’t Exist — Self - Singer2024
- Nueva York: A Musical History of Latin New York — Self (archive footage)2021
- Red Pill — Rocky2021
- El accidente feliz — Self (Archive Footage)2020
- Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage — Self2019
- Ruben Blades Is Not My Name — Self2018
- John Leguizamo's Latin History for Morons — Self2018
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 184,015
- Total plays
- 1,922,045
Tags
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Rubén Blades (born July 16, 1948) is a Panamanian salsa singer, songwriter, actor and politician. As songwriter, Blades brought the lyrical sophistication of South American nueva canción and Cuban nueva trova to salsa, creating thinking persons' dance music. He remains wildly popular in that country and much admired throughout Latin America, and he managed to attract 20% of the vote in his failed attempt to win the Panamanian presidency in 1994. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Rub%C3%A9n+Blad
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,391x
- Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 4,008x
- First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole
· 2019 · cited 3,496x
- Transition‐Metal‐Catalyzed Direct Arylation of (Hetero)Arenes by CH Bond Cleavage
· 2009 · cited 2,679x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)<sup>1</sup>
· 2021 · cited 2,362x
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Key dates
- Born
- 16 July 1948
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Panama
- Place of birth
- Panama City
- Sibling
- Roberto Blades
- Occupation
- composer
- Position held
- minister
- Educated at
- Harvard Law School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- world music
Gallery (2)
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1948 births20th-century male actors20th-century Panamanian lawyers20th-century Panamanian male singers20th-century Panamanian singers21st-century male actors21st-century Panamanian male singers21st-century Panamanian singersAfro-Cuban jazz bandleadersAfro-Cuban jazz singersElektra Records artistsFania All-Stars members