Life's Little Surprises: A Memoir

The life and times of a living legend, the most successful and influential singer/songwriter of the past fifty years throughout the Spanish-speaking world, who also happens to be an acclaimed Hollywood and Broadway actor, a Harvard Law School graduate with a Master’s degree in international law, and a political activist who ran for president in his native Panama.

Blades has lived a life in full, and he tells of it with infectious brio, honesty, and wit:

He writes about his mother, a Cuban chi...