Rubén Blades recently participated in a program and ended up surprised by the revelations they made.
At 76, the renowned singer -songwriter Rubén Blades He has discovered that his biological grandfather would not be Rubén Nathaniel Blades, as he always believed, but Ricardo Miró, considered by many as the best poet in Panama.
Is Rubén Blades grandson of famous poet?
This revelation was made by the famous American academic Henry Louis Gates in his ‘Finding Your Roots’ program, which is dedicated to genealogical research.
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The reaction of the salsa was in amazement: “Holy God, uff … incredible! This will be a bomb in Panama. Well, it is a bomb for me,” said the author of ‘Pedro Navaja’.
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As the news assimilated, he added: “I know that I will think about this more clearly, but this is … almost incredible, especially considering who this man is and what he represents in Panama and in Latin America … And look, your grandfather was Miró! And you were writing all these songs … “.
Rubén Blades could never meet his grandfather
At the beginning of the program, Rubén Blades He commented that he never met his grandfather and that as a child he imagined that he was some black man who worked in the construction of the Panama Canal, since his father was “Moreno.” Then they told him that his grandfather was an accountant, which disappointed him and changed his epic narrative.
Although there is no evidence of how he looked and Emma, the grandmother of BLADESThey met, the musician said that his grandmother was a cultured woman, a graduate of the university, and that both shared interests in common.
The program stressed that during the time when the singer’s father was born, both agreed in Panama City: she ran a photography business and taught drawing, while Miró was director of the National Archive. “They probably met in an exhibition, either in a gallery or a photographic sample,” concluded Rubén Blades.
However, the singer’s grandmother was always reserved about her son Rubén Darío Blades’s father, known as ‘skipper’, and only said she didn’t want to know anything about him.
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Skipper died in 2023 at age 99 and thanks to a DNA test, genealogical research came to fruition. “I think my father would have been happy to know who his father was. I think he would have done very, very happy to know. I don’t know if he knew it, I really don’t think so. I think he would have told me. But my father, knowing him, He simply took his life as it came, “he said.
Interestingly, the link between Rubén Blades And Ricardo Miró also connects the musician with another great Panamanian poet: Amalia Daini de Icaso, the first woman to publish poetry in Panama and Aunt de Miró.
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