Salsa-music legend Rubén Blades is having a moment — several moments, actually — a full four years after the conclusion of his “Caminando, adiós y gracias” (“Walking, good-bye and thanks”) farewell ...

Ruben Blades & Roberto Delgado Orchestra performing at the Acura stage during the New Orleans Jazz Fest at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans Friday, April 25, 2014. Ruben Blades & Roberto Delgado ...

Ruben Blades was never one to run with the herd — especially when it came to his music. After nearly 50 years as a salsa icon whose career was forged on complex, socially conscious compositions that ...

4 Photos: Meet the 2025 Tony Award Nominees from Plays Panamanian singer Rubén Blades helped shape the New York salsa scene in the 1970s, and he’s been keeping people dancing ever since. The 12-time ...

There are few artists in Latin music — or in any genre, for that matter — as prolific and ubiquitously talented as Rubén Blades. He’s a singer and a songwriter. He’s an actor. He’s even a lawyer and a ...

Ruben Blades has always made music that is a record of his time. In representing the soul of a marginal Latin American culture that has since moved into the mainstream, his great albums of the ...

Rubén Blades, the singer-songwriter behind some of the greatest salsa of all time, attempts a bold merger on his latest album, Salswing!, moving between the strutting, brassy sheen of swing and the ...

NEW YORK (AP) – Ruben Blades says he never imagined his CD "Tangos" would be nominated for a Latin Grammy. Instead, it's up for two — album of the year and best tango album. "People probably have to ...

Salsa legend Rubén Blades performs his classic compositions as tangos on the upcoming Sunnyside release, Tangos (June 24)! The best songs are those that provide messages that reach beyond the genre ...

A nine-time Grammy-winner and all-star vocalist of the illustrious salsa label, Fania Records, Rubén Blades is a living legend. Following a 2017 collaboration with Lin-Manuel Miranda, as well as Salsa ...

Halfway through the mesmerizing set of Afro-Caribbean classics that singer-songwriter Rubén Blades presented Wednesday at the Hollywood Bowl, he introduced the beloved 1984 hit “Decisiones,” noting ...

Legendary Panamanian singer-songwriter, Ruben Blades, who is hailed as one of the most important Latin American voices of his time, will perform one of his last Salsa music concerts this weekend in ...