Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna and recorded a number of albums with them. However, Fania continued to release recordings compiled from their archives for some years afterwards. In the early 1980s, Blades began his career in films as a composer of soundtracks. Wikipedia
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Ran for President as founder and head of Papa Egoro party in 1994. He came in third behind the two leading Panamanian parties. However, he won a respectable 18% of the vote. His party gained enough seats in the Panamanian Legislature to ensure its continu www.imdb.com/name/nm0001952/
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Rubn Blades brought the lyrical sophistication of South American "nueva cancin" and Cuban "nueva trova" to salsa, telling acidly-rendered stories of devastated lives, but with an everpresent message of hope. www.warr.org/colonblades.html