Salsa-music legend Rubén Blades is having a moment — several moments, actually — a full four years after the conclusion of his “Caminando, adiós y gracias” (“Walking, good-bye and thanks”) farewell ...

Ruben Blades was never one to run with the herd — especially when it came to his music. After nearly 50 years as a salsa icon whose career was forged on complex, socially conscious compositions that ...

Ruben Blades & Roberto Delgado Orchestra performing at the Acura stage during the New Orleans Jazz Fest at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans Friday, April 25, 2014. Ruben Blades & Roberto Delgado ...

Salsa legend Rubén Blades was reflecting on a role he played in “Spoken Word,” a recent film directed by Victor Núñez, but wound up talking about his own life. “Being older now, 62, I know there is ...

There are few artists in Latin music — or in any genre, for that matter — as prolific and ubiquitously talented as Rubén Blades. He’s a singer and a songwriter. He’s an actor. He’s even a lawyer and a ...

Ruben Blades has always made music that is a record of his time. In representing the soul of a marginal Latin American culture that has since moved into the mainstream, his great albums of the ...

NEW YORK (AP) – Ruben Blades says he never imagined his CD "Tangos" would be nominated for a Latin Grammy. Instead, it's up for two — album of the year and best tango album. "People probably have to ...

Starting almost 50 years ago, Blades, who grew up in Panama, helped lay the groundwork. One of salsa’s most charismatic performers of the Seventies and beyond, he made million-selling albums with ...

A nine-time Grammy-winner and all-star vocalist of the illustrious salsa label, Fania Records, Rubén Blades is a living legend. Following a 2017 collaboration with Lin-Manuel Miranda, as well as Salsa ...

Rubén Blades was born in a rooming house in a small Latin American country, but he refused to see limitations or barriers; his work has crossed geopolitical borders, cultures, and genres, and has made ...

BOSTON — Salsa superstar and actor Ruben Blades has agreed to give his personal papers as well as rare recordings of rehearsals and concerts to Harvard University. The university’s Eda Kuhn Loeb Music ...

Halfway through the mesmerizing set of Afro-Caribbean classics that singer-songwriter Rubén Blades presented Wednesday at the Hollywood Bowl, he introduced the beloved 1984 hit “Decisiones,” noting ...