Thanks to a contact he’d made back home, he made his first album during the trip ... and unintelligent way.” Ruben Blades and Whoopi Goldberg in “Fatal Beauty,” 1987.

Released under the auspices of Ruben Blades Productions ... are from the band’s fourth studio album, 2019’s audacious “You Know What … ?” The first three appear in the same order ...

Early this year, Ruben Blades, the Panamanian songwriter and salsa superstar with a Harvard law degree, put out ''Nothing But the Truth,'' his first album of songs in English. LEAD: Ruben Blades ...

Rubén Blades's new album Tango wins a Latin Grammys award, and there are wins for Enrique Iglesias and Placido Domingo Ruben Blades performs ... Marc Anthony's 3.0 won the first television ...

Panamanian salsa icon Rubén Blades was the man of the hour at the ... of the Year and received the evening’s top prize — album of the year — for “Salswing,” his collaboration with ...

Héctor Lavoe, Willie Colón and Rubén Blades. Ray Barretto ... And for people approaching the Fania discography for the first time, the old albums still dazzle with their poetry and vision.

The honorees also include Juanes, Rubén Blades ... Award for best música urbana album on Sunday (Feb. 4) for her history-making Mañana Será Bonito, the first set by a female-artist in Spanish ...

Ruben Blades’ new album “Salswing!” Blades’ latest concept is actually spread over three albums. “Salswing!” features a version of his previous hit “Paula C” and other salsa songs ...

On August 16th, fifty-three years after his musical début in New York City, Rubén Blades filled Manhattan’s fourth-largest theatre, the United Palace, in Washington Heights, with a concert ...

Usually, they were Colombian drug dealers, but when they really wanted me to stretch, they asked me to play Cuban drug dealers,” says Ruben Blades ... his first English- language album, the ...

Mundo, which melds Celtic, Middle Eastern, African, Afro-Cuban, flamenco and jazz music. Blades is also a stage and film actor and was a candidate for president in Panama in 1994.