''Caminando (Walking)'' It is the name of the 10°

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Rubén Blades Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna (born July 16, 1948), known professionally as Rubén Blades (, but in Panama and within the family), is a Panamanian musician, singer, composer, actor, activist, and politician, performing musically most often in th ...

with Son Del Solar, his first album after moving from Elektra to

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published on

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, 1991. The album was a critical and commercial success with Latin and salsa audiences, marking a temporary return to Blades earlier coro-heavy style which marked the collaborations with

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of a decade earlier on Fania. The album also reinstated the political content of his music, though some listeners still found the social criticism lacking. Blades new band for Sony, Son del Solar, includes four of the Seis del Solar members from his Elektra albums: percussionists Ralph Irizarry, Eddie Montalvo and

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with pianist Oscar Hernández. The album reached number three on the ''Billboard'' Tropical Albums chart and received a

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nomination for Best Tropical Latin Album in

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Track listing

The title track " Caminando", "Camaleón", and the trombone heavy "Prohibido olvidar," were released as singles. All songs are written by Blades. The song "Cipriano Armenteros" was also popular and became known as one of the first successful examples of "narrative-salsa" genre.César Miguel Rondón ''The Book of Salsa: A Chronicle of Urban Music'' 0807886394 2008 Page 278 "This song, “Cipriano Armenteros,” penned by Blades, inaugurated the all-important style of “narrative salsa” and became an extraordinary hit. Here was a new way of saying things with an intelligent irony that seeped into and revealed "

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References

1991 albums Rubén Blades albums 1990s Spanish-language albums {{Latin-album-stub