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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Born in Panama to a Colombian father (a musician turned member of the secret police) and a Cuban mother (an actress and musician), Blades came to Manhattan in 1969; worried he would get into some sort ...