Happy 35th Anniversary to The Super. #theSuper #JoePesci #VincentGardenia #MadolynSmithOsborne #RubenBlades #StaceyTravis #KennyBlank #PaulBenjamin #CaroleShelley #BeatriceWinde #AnthonyHeald #Anniversary #35thAnniversary

Everyone files Rubén Blades under salsa and stops there. But listen to the roots: cinematic songcraft, conversational baritones, and loose improvisational rhythm. His real instrument was narrative — he wrote short stories you could dance to. #RubenBlades #Salsa #MusicArchaeology #MusicHistory

Everyone remembers the salsa fireworks, but Blades built his records on restraint. That laid-back baritone sells intimacy by holding back — it sounds like someone confiding in you, long after the brass has cooled. #RubenBlades #Salsa #SalsaDura #LatinMusic #MusicArchaeology #MusicHistory

Blades didn't just make salsa for dancing — he wrote crime fiction set to clave. On "Pedro Navaja," a hood and a streetwalker kill each other in a doorway, and a passing drunk pockets the gun and the cash. Salsa's first true short story.

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Salsa's best-selling single ever isn't a love song — it's a murder ballad. Rubén Blades built Siembra's narrative of a body count on Brecht and Weill's "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer." Threepenny Opera, on the dancefloor.

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Very cool documentary - worth it.
#music #musicsky #salsa #rubenblades

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfyG...

"Bajañí" de Fernando Trueba se estrena en San Sebastian

youtu.be/ALzG5TZ9wvU

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