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 ...

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 ...

Blades will perform Aug. 18 at Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land as part of his Salswing! Tour. Tickets are $52.99-252.99 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through the venue site. Blades is ...

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 ...

Twelve-time Grammy-winning musician Rubén Blades is a hard man to get in touch with. He has no agent, relying solely on a long-time friend to manage an inbox that is always full of requests from all ...

We all knew vocalist Rubén Blades knew his way around the clave, the rhythmic pattern that propels the Afro-Cuban dance music he's known for. But I bet you didn't know he could swing a big band jazz ...

What's more difficult, running a presidential campaign or creating a world-beat jam with bagpipes and a Cuban drum? Perhaps the only man qualified to tackle that question is RubénBlades. "The music is ...

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 advice ...

I read with great interest the recent news that Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador will soon be canonized. Pope Francis has approved a miracle attributed to Romero, clearing the way for his ...

On one hand, Latin pop is an endless stream of singles from a handful of talented musicians who just dominate that arena. On the other, Latinx musicians are tearing down the walls of genre and ...

Rubén Blades is a singer, songwriter, actor, lawyer, and politician, born in Panama and a New Yorker since 1974. After four decades in the public eye, 17 Grammy Awards, and some of the best-selling ...