Singer & politician
Rubén Blades
Panamanian salsa singer and songwriter, an actor, a Harvard trained lawyer and a candidate for his country's presidency. Born in Panama City.
Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna, known professionally as Rubén Blades, is a Panamanian musician, singer, composer, actor, activist, and politician, performing musically most often in the salsa, and Latin jazz genres. As a songwriter, Blades brought the lyrical sophistication of Central American nueva canción and Cuban nueva trova as well as experimental tempos and politically inspired Son Cubano salsa to his music, creating "thinking persons' (salsa) dance music". Blades has written dozens of hit songs, including "Pedro Navaja" and "El Cantante". He has received 21 Grammy Award nominations, winning twelve of them, along with twelve Latin Grammy Awards.
- Born
- 1948-07-16, Panama City, PanamaA Friday
- At birth
- Sun in Cancer, Moon in Sagittarius
- Nationality
- Africa
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1948-07-16, Panama City, Panama · time unknown, noon chart
America/Panamathe zone used then
America/PanamaThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Cancer | 24°01′ | Direct |
| Moon | Sagittarius | 3°38′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Cancer | 3°37′ | Direct |
| Venus | Gemini | 24°38′ | Direct |
| Mars | Virgo | 29°42′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Sagittarius | 20°29′ | Retrograde |
| Saturn | Leo | 21°58′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Gemini | 28°00′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Libra | 10°23′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Leo | 13°55′ | Direct |
Rubén Blades is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Rubén Blades was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.