Ruben Blades sings salsa and jazz on ‘Salswing!’, while The Aristocrats burn bright on new live album Musical delights abound on new album by the 17-time Grammy and Latin Grammy winner ...

Rubén Blades has been named the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year. An eight-time Latin Grammy and nine-time Grammy Award-winner, Blades will be honored as an advocate for social justice ...

Blades knows that the general public likely knows him best as Salazar, but those in the music community, especially the Latin one, know differently. Thanks to the likes of Bad Bunny and Rosalía ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ruben Blades, third from right, Roberto Delgado, right, and his orchestra accept the award for album of the year for “Salswing!” while holding up the flag of Panama at the 22nd annual Latin ...

CONTRERAS: Ruben Blades had a big week at the Grammys. But it's also an indication that the future is a blank canvas for him, and so many of us can't wait to see what comes next.

Rubén Blades, the award-winning salsa composer, singer, songwriter, and activist, has been inadvertently pulled into the J Balvin-Residente feud. On Thursday night, he delivered some words of ...

Blades later adds, “All albums today limit themselves to a specific musical direction to fill a specific market niche. It is an economic imperative, not an artistic one.” ...

Ruben Blades is a Renaissance man -- he acts, he writes and performs salsa music, he even served as Panama's minister of tourism. Now he returns to film in Spoken Word as a cancer-stricken man ...

After being fascinated by the music of Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers in the movie “Rock Rock Rock!” when he was about 10, Blades entered music through a very back door in the '70s but never ...