He was nominated for the first time in 1983 forCanciones del Solar de los Aburridos— a now classic collaboration with trombonist and producerWillie Colón. Between 1997 and 2018, Blades won seven GRAMMY Awards, emerging victorious every single time he was nominated. HisLatin GRAMMYbounty is equa...
The therapeutic exercises and tasks that might have felt like drudgery became an absorbing new world to explore, and ordinary milestones became delayed but usually victorious crossings of one marathon finish line after another. Despite the devastating sorrow of Jeff’s terminal diagnosis, and as ...