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Full name, Ruben Blades, Jr.; born July 16, 1948, in Panama City, Panama (first came to the U.S. in 1969); son of Ruben (a police officer) and Anoland (a radio actress and singer/pianist) Blades; married, wife's name, Lisa.

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Education: Law degree, University of Panama, 1974; Master of Law, Harvard University, 1985. Addresses: Record company-- Elektra, 962 N. La Cienega, Los Angeles, Calif. 90069.

Ruben Blades is probably the best-selling performer of Latin salsa music in recent years.

Though he most often sings in Spanish and is extremely popular with Latin Americans, he has gone beyond salsa's usual, primarily Hispanic audience to reach listeners from all cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Critics, and Blades himself, attribute his enormous success to the quality of his lyrics.

As Pete Hamill phrased it in New York magazine, "Blades does not write jingles for teenagers, or moony ballads of self-pity and abandonment; his songs are about people, one at a time, and their universal