Description: Follows the singer to Harvard where he gets his Master’s Degree in International Law, to his old neighborhood in Panama, to California for a recording session with Linda Ronstadt, and to New York for a performance at S.O.B’s.
Amazon.com: This 1986 documentary by filmmaker Robert Mugge chronicles the life, music, philosophies, and opinions of the singer, bandleader, political activist, and Harvard-trained lawyer Rubén Blades. Mugge captures Blades's intelligence, passion, and charisma in a variety of locales: from the bandstand of New York City's famed club, S.O.B.'s, where Blades and his ensemble, Seis del Solar, performed, to his heartfelt recollections of growing up in United States-dominated Panama City. Whether he's talking about the political history of his country with columnist Peter Hamill of the [New York] Daily News, recording a track with pop superstar Linda Ronstadt, or swinging the son montuno/salsa grooves of "Buscando America," "Tiburon," and his "Mack the Knife" cover, "Pedro Navaja," with his group, Rubén Blades successfully blends art and politics. In the film he promised to return home and run for president--which he eventually did, unsuccessfully, but heroically. --Eugene Holley Jr.
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Rating: - WHAT HAPPENED TO WILLIE COLON?
The most dissappointng part of this psuedo documentary is the way he has glossed over the most important person in his career, Willie Colon. It is inexcusable to revise history in such a blatant cavalier ... Read More
Rating: - Oh, Boy! What an Intellectual & Down-to-Earth Ruben is!
I've heard many things about Mr. Ruben Blades since I was a young girl and I never followed up on it until after his successes crossed over the Pacific/Atlantic waters and made way to the U.S.A. Now I see ... Read More
Rating: - Ruben Blades in perspective.
Before you buy this, you should know that it is somewhat of a documentary. There aren't full recordings of Ruben Blades music. Rather, there are partial live recordings accompanied by following Blades and ... Read More
Rating: - Obligatorio para todo Bladesómano
Excelente documental. Una autobiografía donde Rubén nos lleva por las rutas de su infancia a travez de relatos y entrevistas en diferentes sitios de Panamá y su apartamento en NY. Alterna con un concierto ... Read More
Rating: - Esperaba algo mejor!
Bien, compré este DVD con la ilusión de tener (por fin!) un DVD de música latina dentro de mi colección de DVDs de musicales donde la mayoría son de de grupos que cantan en ingles. Resulta ser que al Sr. ... Read More
- WHAT HAPPENED TO WILLIE COLON?
- Oh, Boy! What an Intellectual & Down-to-Earth Ruben is!
- Esperaba algo mejor!