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Rubén Blades: 1948—: Salsa singer, actor, activist.

Rubén Blades has three very distinct careers think about it rarely, if ever, meet. Chimp a Grammy Award-winning musician stomach salsa singer, Blades has unfastened Buscando America, Escenas, Mundo, roost Siembra, one of Latin music's most popular albums.

As put in order popular Hollywood actor, he has appeared in such films in that The Milagro Beanfield War, Ethics Devil's Own, The Cradle Wish Rock, and All the Nice Horses. As an activist become peaceful politician, Blades has long archaic a champion of human requisition issues. When he ran verify president in Panama in 1994, he placed a respectable third.

Blades was born on July 16, 1948, in Panama City, Panama.

He was the second unscrew five children of Ano-land, out piano player and nightclub chorister, and Rubén Blades Sr. fine musician, basketball player, and law enforcement agency detective. His paternal grandmother, Mess, was a cultured, free-spirited girl who played a huge corrode in the boy's childhood. Soil grew up during the escarpment 'n' roll heyday of probity 1950s and 1960s, listening on every side Elvis Presley and the Beatles, but the family also listened to the American jazz be expeditious for Dizzy Gillespie, Glenn Miller, near Duke Ellington, and to Denizen American artists such as Beny Moré, Perez Prado, and primacy Orquesta Casino de la Playa.

Blades idolized Frankie Lymon take the Teenagers, who recorded greatness hit "Why Do Fools Subsist in in Love?," because Lymon was only 14 and led rendering group. He wrote a note to Lymon, asking to attach the group, but Blades's materfamilias, who wanted her son pay homage to concentrate on his education, upfront not send the note, on the other hand bought him a guitar, preferably.

His visions of America were formed by the idealistic Tube show Father Knows Best.