Rubén Blades
Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna, known professionally as Rubén Blades, is a Panamanian musician, singer, composer, actor, activist, and politician, performing musically most often in the salsa, and Latin jazz genres. As a songwriter, Blades brought the lyrical sophistication of Central American nueva canción and Cuban nueva trova as well as experimental tempos and politically inspired Son Cubano salsa to his music, creating "thinking persons' (salsa) dance music". Blades has written dozens of hit songs, including "Pedro Navaja" and "El Cantante". He has received 21 Grammy Award nominations, winning twelve of them, along with twelve Latin Grammy Awards.
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🎬 Movies
Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple
actor
2024
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
actor
2019
Hands of Stone
actor
2016
The Counselor
actor
2013
Outlaws - For Greater Glory
actor
2012
Safe House
actor
2012
The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2'
actor
2005
Spin
actor
2003
Imagining Argentina
actor
2003
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
actor
2003
Assassination Tango
actor
2003
The Maldonado Miracle
actor
2003
Las caras lindas de Tite Curet
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2002
All the Pretty Horses
actor
2000
Cradle Will Rock
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1999
Chinese Box
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1997
The Devil's Own
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1997
Color of Night
actor
1994
A Million to Juan
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1994
The Super
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1991
Predator 2
actor
1990
The Two Jakes
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1990
Mo' Better Blues
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1990
The Lemon Sisters
actor
1989
Disorganized Crime
actor
1989
Homeboy
actor
1988
The Milagro Beanfield War
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1988
Fatal Beauty
actor
1987
Critical Condition
actor
1987
The Last Fight
actor
1983
