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Rubén Blades
Panamanian musician (born 1948)
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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.
El accidente feliz
2020 · as Self (Archive Footage)
Hands of Stone
2016 · as Carlos Eleta
Fear the Walking Dead
2015 · as Daniel Salazar
The Counselor
2013 · as Jefe
Outlaws - For Greater Glory
2012 · as Président Calles
Safe House
2012 · as Carlos Villar
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
2003 · as Jorge, Retired FBI Agent
Imagining Argentina
2003 · as Silvio Ayala
All the Pretty Horses
2000 · as Rocha
Cradle Will Rock
1999 · as Diego Rivera
The Devil's Own
1997 · as Edwin Diaz
Color of Night
1994 · as Hector
Predator 2
1990 · as Danny Archuleta
The Two Jakes
1990 · as Mickey Nice
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