Monday, August 18, 2014

Why musician Rubén Blades made the switch from salsa to tango

by April Peavey 
Panamanian musician Rubén Blades is best known for his salsa compositions, but all along, it seems, he was fantasizing about something else.
"I've always wondered how the songs I wrote, that were recorded in salsa, how would they turn out if I recorded them as tangos," Blades says.
These aren't exactly the closest of genres — salsa and tango. I mean, where do you even start? 
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