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
Hands of Stone
actor
2017
Paco de Lucia - A Journey
actor
2015
The Counselor
actor
2013
Cristiada
actor
2012
Safe House
actor
2012
Secuestro Express
actor
2005
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
actor
2003
Spin
actor
2003
Imagining Argentina
actor
2002
Assassination Tango
actor
2002
All the Pretty Horses
actor
2001
Chinese Box
actor
1998
The Devil's Own
actor
1997
Color of Night
actor
1995
Life with Mikey
actor
1994
A Million to Juan
actor
1994
The Lemon Sisters
actor
1992
The Two Jakes
actor
1991
The Super
actor
1991
Predator 2
actor
1990
Mo' Better Blues
actor
1990
Homeboy
actor
1989
Fatal Beauty
actor
1988
The Milagro Beanfield War
actor
1988
Critical Condition
actor
1987
Crossover Dreams
actor
1985
