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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
Studio characters
“The bully got bullied...and that was happening in all levels of society: governments were treating people badly, authorities were not doing what they were supposed to do and people saw in that example, a way of getting even.”
“I grew up surrounded by all types of music...You have to remember, Panama is a port so I always had contact with all types of music—from the big bands of Count Basie to all the Cuban bands of people like Benny Moré.”
“I like to think of it as like watching The Godfather...You might have seen it 1,000 times, but when it comes on it makes you stop. Each time you see it, you find something different. That’s what I want people to get from my music.”
“There's a moment in everybody's life...where you have more past than future, and then you better start organizing your time. So I thought maybe this is the time to do this. I'm not keen on people following me and recording my life and asking personal questions and what-not, but I figured I had to do it.”
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