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The life and times of a living legend, the most successful and influential singer/songwriter of the past fifty years throughout the Spanish-speaking world, who also happens to be an acclaimed Hollywood and Broadway actor, a Harvard Law School graduate with a Master's degree in international law, and a political activist who ran for president in his native Panama.

Blades has lived a life in full, and he tells of it with infectious brio, honesty, and wit:

He writes about his paternal grandfather, who emigrated from Saint Lucia, his mother, a Cuban soap opera actress, and his father, who was born in Columbia and was a percussionist and policeman. He also writes about his arrival in New York City from Panama in the 1970s and his rise as a leading light among the Fania-All Stars in salsa's glory years.

Blades writes about his collaborations with the great trombonist/singer Willie Colon, which resulted in the release of Siembra, the best-selling salsa album of all time. It sold more than 25,000,000 million copies, and every track became a hit throughout the Latin X world, including Pedro Navaja, his best known song, which was inspired by Kurt Weil's Mack the Knife. He talks about his refusal to allow his music to be pigeonholed, which set the stage for his inventive and eclectic 1983 solo breakout, Buscando America, one of the great albums of that decade.

He writes about his embrace of other popular musical genres and his collaborations with Linda Ronstadt, Sting, Elvis Costello, Leonard Cohen, and Wynton Marsalis. He discusses his acting career and his appearances in films such as Predator 2, Color of Night, Safe House, and Hands of Stone, and about his performances in The Josephine Baker Story, Crazy from the Heart, and The Madonado Miracle, for which he received Emmy nominations.

Finally, Blades writes about his own political activism: his stance against American imperialism, which is most evident in his 1981 song "Tiburon" (Spanish for "shark"), his denunciation by anti-Castro Cubans in Florida, and his creation of a progressive political party in Panama under whose banner he made a run for president, garnering only 17% of the vote because he was deemed not sufficiently Panamanian.
About the Author: RUBÉN BLADES was born in Panama; he lives in New York City with his wife, Luba Mason, an actress, singer, and dancer.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780593318058
  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Memoir
  • Width: 159 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0593318056
  • Publisher Date: 03 Feb 2026
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 384
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 793 gr


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