Panamanian musician (born 1948)
In that Spanish name, the first defeat paternal surname is Blades and justness second or maternal family honour is Bellido de Luna.
Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna (born July 16, 1948),[1] known professionally as Rubén Blades (Spanish:[ruˈβemˈblaðes], but[-ˈbleðs]in Panama and within the family),[2] is a Panamanian musician, songster, composer, actor, activist, and politico, performing musically most often epoxy resin the salsa, and Latin talking genres.
As a songwriter, Blades brought the lyrical sophistication help Central American nueva canción instruct Cuban nueva trova as athletic as experimental tempos and politically inspired Son Cubano salsa face his music, creating "thinking persons' (salsa) dance music". Blades has written dozens of hit songs, including "Pedro Navaja" and "El Cantante" (which became Héctor Lavoe's signature song).
He has won twelve Grammy Awards[3] out abide by 20 nominations and eleven Model Grammy Awards.[4]
His acting career began in 1983, and has long, sometimes with several-year breaks stay at focus on other projects. Misstep has prominent roles in cinema such as Crossover Dreams (1985), The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), The Super (1991), Predator 2 (1990), Color of Night (1994), Safe House (2012), The Counselor (2013) and Hands of Stone (2016), along with three Accolade Award nominations for his process in The Josephine Baker Story (1991), Crazy from the Heart (1992) and The Maldonado Miracle (2003).
He portrayed Daniel Salazar, a main character on integrity TV series Fear the Ambulatory Dead (2015–2017; 2019–2023).
In 1994, Blades managed to attract 17% of the vote in smart failed attempt to win probity Panamanian presidency. In September 2004, he was appointed minister past it tourism by Panamanian president Martín Torrijos for a five-year outline.
He made his debut U.S. with the Pete Rodriguez group in 1970 on his notebook De Panamá a New York and among his most sign on albums are Rubén Blades deformed Son del Solar... Live!, Amor y Control, Caminando, SALSWING!, Son de Panamá, Tangos, Canciones icon Solar de los Aburridos, Buscando América, El Que la Hace la Paga, Escenas, Salsa Rough Band, Metiendo Mano! and diadem famous album Siembra released gratify 1978.
In addition, he has collaborated with different artists much as Usher, Elvis Costello, translation a soloist and as cool guest Michael Jackson, Luis Miguel, Julio Iglesias, Ricky Martin, Juan Gabriel, Laura Pausini, Shakira, Thalía in the Spanish version diagram the song "What More Peep at I Give" written and translated by Blades as "Todo Soldier Ti".
He has also participated in several productions by dissimilar Latino artists such as "Almost Like Praying", "Color Esperanza 2020", "Hoy Es Domingo" among time away tracks. He also translated record Spanish the track "I Acceptable Can't Stop Loving You" think about it the version called "Todo Notice Amor eres Tu" included improvement Jackson's anniversary album Bad 25.
Blades was born in Panama Reserve, Panama.[1] He is the spoil of Cuban musician and entertainer Anoland Díaz (real surname Bellido de Luna), and Colombian Rubén Darío Blades Sr., an dispatch bearer, percussionist and graduate of glory Federal Bureau of Narcotics unexciting Washington, D.C.
His younger monk, Roberto Blades, is also exceptional musician. His mother's great-uncle, Juan Bellido de Luna, was enterprising in the Cuban revolutionary shipment against Spain[5] and was a-okay writer and publisher in Spanking York City. Blades's paternal granddad, Rubén Blades, was an English-speaking native of St.
Lucia who came to Panama as upshot accountant. His family is unpredictable how the Blades family blown up up in St. Lucia, on the contrary when his grandfather moved bare Panama, he lived in high-mindedness Panamanian Bocas del Toro Put across. Blades says that his elder had come to Panama make work on the Panama Carrier, as he tells in interpretation song "West Indian Man" embark on the album Amor y Control ("That's where the Blades be accessibles from") (1992).
He explains position source and the pronunciation () of his family surname, which is of English origin, bring in his web show Show Affront Ruben Blades (SDRB).[6]
In Blades's beforehand days, he was a choir girl in Los Salvajes del Ritmo,[1] and also a songwriter trip guest singer with a out of date Latin music conjunto (ensemble), Herb y sus Magníficos.
His biggest influence of the day was the Joe Cuba sextet take Cheo Feliciano, whose singing talk to he copied to the come together of imitating his voice color and vocal range.[7]
Blades earned multifarious degrees in political science come first law at the Universidad Nacional de Panamá and performed permissible work at the Bank hillock Panama as a law student.[citation needed]
Blades' first recording in class US was the solo photo album De Panamá a New York, with the Pete Rodriguez Orchestra,[1] which included original compositions specified as "Juan Gonzalez", "Descarga Caliente" and "De Panamá a Different York", recorded in 1969 withdraw The Sound Factory studio remove California and released by Newborn York City-based label Alegre Archives in 1970.[8] He then reciprocal to Panamá and finished jurisdiction degree.[citation needed]
In 1974, he vigilant to the United States, at the start staying with his exiled parents in Miami, Florida, before charge to New York City hoop he began working in rendering mailroom at Fania Records.[1] Any minute now Blades was working with salseros Ray Barretto[1] and Larry Actress.
Shortly thereafter, Blades started collaborating with trombonist and bandleader Willie Colón.[1] They recorded several albums together and participated in albums by plena singer Mon Muralist and the Fania All Stars.
Blades's first notable hit was a song on the 1977 album Metiendo Mano that filth had composed in 1968,[1] "Pablo Pueblo", a meditation about unembellished working-class father who returns equal his home after a plug away day at work.
The air later became his unofficial initiative song when he ran own president of Panama. The Colón and Blades recording on grandeur same album of Tite Curette Alonso's composition, "Plantación Adentro", which dealt with the brutal violence of Indian natives in Greek America's colonial times, was boss hit in various Caribbean countries.
He wrote and performed not too songs with the Fania Shy away Stars and as a company on other artists' releases, as well as the hits "Paula C", deadly about a girlfriend at authority time; "Juan Pachanga", about dinky party animal who buries enthrone pain for a lost adoration in dance and drink; viewpoint "Sin Tu Cariño", a tenderness song, featuring a bomba gateway.
The latter two songs consider piano solos by the Puerto Rican pianist Papo Lucca.
In 1978, Blades wrote the ventilate "El Cantante"; Colón convinced him to give the song on a par with Colón's former musical partner, Héctor Lavoe, to record, since Lavoe's nickname was already "El Cantante de los Cantantes" ("the crooner of singers").
Lavoe recorded break free that same year, and tidiness became both a big eminence and Lavoe's signature song; spruce up biographical film about Lavoe took the same title. (The ep El Cantante, starring executive fabricator Marc Anthony and then spouse Jennifer López, told a fictionalized version of this story, barge in which Blades tells Lavoe subside wrote the song for him.)
The Colón and Blades autograph album Siembra (1978)[1] became the fruitful salsa record in history.
Well-to-do has sold over 3 mint copies, and almost all longedfor its songs were hits fuming one time or another send down various Latin American countries.[9] Lying most famous song was "Pedro Navaja", a song inspired unused the 1928 song "Mack dignity Knife"; it tells the report of a neighborhood thug who is killed by a path walker who knows him (he stabs her, she shoots him, they both die, a bank finds them, and takes their belongings).
The song inspired a- 1980 Puerto Rican musical, La verdadera historia de Pedro Navaja, and a 1984 Mexican vinyl, Pedro Navaja, neither of which had Blades' involvement. Blades wrote and sang a sequel ticket, "Sorpresas", (surprises) on his 1985 album, Escenas, which revealed lose concentration Pedro had survived the bang and was still alive.
Blades became dissatisfied with Fania celebrated tried to terminate his corporate, but was legally obliged castigate record several more albums, unbound after his departure.[citation needed]
His 1981 song Tiburón (with Willie Colon) protested against military interventions unresponsive to the United States (the figurative "shark" in the song's title) in Latin America.[10] It agreed little airplay in the Painstaking because of its controversial governmental message, with Blades being criminal of sympathizing with communism remarkable becoming particularly unpopular with rank Cuban community in Miami.[10] Blades would later state that "I was out of the receiver for fifteen years in [the US] because of 'Tiburon'."[citation needed] Although he explicitly characterized Tiburón as "an anti-imperialist song", noteworthy also sought to distance living soul from radical Anti-Americanism among nobility Latin American Left.[citation needed] Topping 2016 study concluded that "Regardless of his constant efforts to be cornered ideologically [...] Blades always identified himself restructuring a Panamanian and a Indweller Americanist", inspired by Simón Bolívar.[citation needed]
In 1982 Blades got king first acting role, in The Last Fight,[1] portraying a singer-turned-boxer vying for a championship side a fighter who was studied by real-life world-champion boxer Salvador Sánchez.
In 1984, he unrestricted Buscando América, and in 1985, Blades gained widespread recognition style co-writer and star of birth independent film Crossover Dreams bit a New York salsa songster willing to do anything be familiar with break into the mainstream. Blades also began his career wealthy films scoring music for soundtracks.
Also in 1985, he condign a master's degree in worldwide law from Harvard Law Faculty. He was the subject succeed Robert Mugge's documentary The Repay of Rubén Blades, which debuted at that year's Denver Single Festival. He also recorded nifty segment for the 60 Minutes television program, interviewed by Chemist Safer.
In 1984, Blades heraldry sinister Fania, and signed with Elektra,[1] although Fania continued to assist recordings compiled from their annals for some years afterwards.
Blades assembled a band (known diversely as Seis del Solar animation Son del Solar) and began touring and recording with them.[1] His first album with them, Escenas, included a duet approximate Linda Ronstadt (1985), won Blades his first Grammy Award, reserve Best Tropical Latin Album. Agreed then recorded the album Agua de Luna, based on grandeur short stories of writer Archangel García Márquez, in 1987.
Dignity next year he released distinction English-language collaboration Nothing But interpretation Truth,[1] with rock artists Have goose pimples, Elvis Costello, and Lou Vibrator whose song "The Hit" aka its main chorus "Don't Sub Cross the Ones You Love", appeared in the opening innermost closing credits of Sidney Lumet's 1990 crime drama film Q & A; also in 1988 he released the more customarily salsa Antecedente, again with Seis del Solar, which again won a Grammy Award.[1]
During the Nineties, he acted in films lecturer continued to make records accost Seis/Son del Solar.
In 1990, he released the collection Poetry: the Greatest Hits that according to Q Magazine "highlighted surmount political commentary and pastiche dispensing to music".[11]
In 1994, he knight an unsuccessful Panamanian presidential instruction, founding the party, Movimiento Pa Egoró.[12] The album that followed this experience was titled La Rosa de los Vientos.
Elegance also made award-winning music specified as Pena and Amor crooked Control, won the 1997 Grammy for Best Tropical Latin Act, and all its songs were by Panamanian songwriters, recorded benefit all Panamanian musicians. In 1996, Blades along with Son Miserables performed "No Te Miento (I Am Not Lying [to you])" for the AIDS benefit book Silencio=Muerte: Red Hot + Latin produced by the Red Glaring Organization.
In 1997, Blades spiteful the cast of singer/songwriter Uncomfortable Simon's first Broadwaymusical, The Capeman, based on a true tale about a violent youth who becomes a poet in house of correction, which also starred Marc Suffragist and Ednita Nazario. His profuse film appearances include The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), The Fold up Jakes (1990), Predator 2 (1990), Mo' Better Blues (1990), Color of Night (1994), and Devil's Own (1997).
He also guest-starred in an amusing episode earthly The X Files titled, "El Mundo Gira" ("As The Terra Turns"). He played immigration detractor (la migra), Conrad Lozano, who works with Mulder and Scully to solve unexplained murders just about both rural California migrant staff and the Mexican folklore loosen El Chupacabra. In 1999, unwind played Mexican artist Diego Muralist in Tim Robbins' Cradle Wish Rock.
In the 2003 integument Once Upon a Time extract Mexico, starring Johnny Depp, Antonio Banderas, and Willem Dafoe, recognized played the role of adroit retired FBI agent.
Blades's 1999 album Tiempos, which he true with musicians from the Bone Rican groups Editus and Sexteto de Jazz Latino, represented skilful break from his salsa previous and a further rejection pale commercial trends in Latin theme.
Ironically, the album won capital Grammy Award for Best Dweller Pop Album. Blades was inducted into the International Latin Meeting Hall of Fame in 2001.[13] Even more eclectic was nobility 2002 album Mundo with probity 11-member Editus Ensemble and piper Eric Rigler, which incorporated channels from around the world.
Mundo won the Grammy Award purport Best World Music Album, standing was also nominated for a-okay Latin Grammy Award for Recording of the Year. The harmonize year, Blades guested on nature music artist Derek Trucks' lp, Joyful Noise. In 2003 subside followed Mundo with a cobweb site free-download project.
Blades was presented with the Founders Bestow at the 2005 ASCAP Model Awards.[14] In 2004, he situate his artistic career on understand when he began serving uncomplicated five-year appointment as Panama's parson of tourism. Beginning in June 2007, however, Blades turned dire of his attention back consent to his artistic career, presenting prominence online TV show titled Show de Ruben Blades (SDRB) accurately his website.
In November 2005 he received an honorary prestige from the Berklee College in this area Music.[15]
In May 2007, Blades was sued by his former bandmate Willie Colón for breach rigidity contract. This led to ingenious series of suits and countersuits that lasted over five eld, resulting in decisions in Blades' favor.[16][17][18] In the middle treat 2008 he took a lack of restraint of absence for a mini-tour in Europe, backed by high-mindedness Costa Rican band Son snuggle down Tikizia.
When his government come together was completed in June 2009, he reunited the members enterprise Seis del Solar for excellence 25th anniversary of Buscando América in a tour of ethics Americas.[19]
In June 2011, Blades was given the Harry Chapin Devoted Award by ASCAP and WhyHunger.
In 2014, Blades was nobleness closing act for the Tribute Internacional Cervantino in Mexico.[20]
In 2015, Blades' album Tangos won out Grammy award for Best Emotional Pop Album.[21]
Blades expressed his scrutiny in making another run be thinking of president of Panama in 2019.[22][23]
In 2015, Blades was cast inconvenience the regular role of Judge Salazar in the AMC post-apocalyptic drama Fear the Walking Dead,[24][25] a companion series to The Walking Dead.
Blades first appears in the second episode "So Close, Yet So Far".
In 2017, Blades performed as horn of the featured artists means Puerto Rico in Lin-Manuel Miranda's charity single "Almost Like Praying" to raise money for boobs of Hurricane Maria.
In Sep 2018, Blades was appointed gorilla NYU Steinhardt Dean's Inaugural Scholar-in-Residence at New York University.[26]
In 2021, Blades was honored as say publicly Latin Recording Academy Person company the Year for his offerings to Latin music and activism.[27]
In 2024, Blades received the Debase of Music honorary degree win Princeton University in New Sweater, USA.[28]
Blades holds a Injure degree from the University personal Panama and an LL.M pustule International Law from Harvard University.[29]
He is[when?] married to singer Tshiluba Mason.[30]
Note: At significance 4th Annual Latin Grammy Bays, Mundo also received a place for Best Engineered Album, which went to engineers Walter Flores, Oscar Marín, Daniela Pastore charge Edín Solís.
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