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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rubén Blades, the singer-songwriter behind some of the greatest salsa of all time, attempts a bold merger on his latest album, Salswing!, moving between the strutting, brassy sheen of swing and the ...

LAS VEGASLAS VEGAS — “Salswing!” de Rubén Blades se llevó este jueves el Latin Grammy al álbum del año en la ceremonia que se está celebrando en Las Vegas (EE.UU.). “Miren, otra vez una sorpresa, esto ...

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 ...

The 22nd annual Latin Grammys were awarded this week. In an industry that emphasizes youth, one of the biggest surprises was that one of the top awards went to a 73-year-old musician. Vocalist and ...

You might say Making Movies is a band of brothers. The Kansas City-based group is made up of two Panamanian-Americans — guitarist Enrique Chi and his brother, bassist Diego Chi — and two ...