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Sharon Aguilar, musician/composer. Akinyele, rapper (Panamanian mother) Tatyana Ali, actress, calypso singer, and composer (Panamanian mother) Nancy Ames, singer. Tyson Beckford, model (maternal grandmother born in Panama) Aloe Blacc, singer. Pop Smoke, rapper (Panamanian father) Rubén Blades, singer, actor, former Minister of Tourism.
Roberto Durán. Roberto Carlos Durán Samaniego[2] (born June 16, 1951) is a Panamanian former professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 2001. He held world championships in four weight classes: Lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight. Duran also reigned as the undisputed and lineal lightweight champion and the lineal ...
Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna (born July 16, 1948), [1] known professionally as Rubén Blades (Spanish: [ruˈβem ˈblaðes], but [- ˈbleðs] in Panama and within the family), [2] is a Panamanian musician, singer, composer, actor, activist, and politician, performing musically most often in the salsa, and Latin jazz genres.
Billy Cobham. William Emanuel Cobham Jr. (born May 16, 1944) is a Panamanian–American jazz drummer who came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with trumpeter Miles Davis and then with the Mahavishnu Orchestra. He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1987 [ 1 ] and the Classic Drummer Hall of Fame in 2013. [ 2 ]
Panamanians (Spanish: Panameños) are people identified with Panama, a country in Central America (which is the central section of the American continent), and with residential, legal, historical, or cultural connections with North America. For most Panamanians, several or all of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their ...
Panama City, [ 4 ] also known as Panama (or Panamá in Spanish), is the capital and largest city of Panama. [ 5 ][ 6 ] It has a total population of 1,086,990, [ 1 ][ 7 ] with over 2,100,000 in its urban area. The city is located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, in the province of Panama. The city is the political and administrative ...
Propelled by his famous family and their friends, Bosé started a career as an actor in 1971, taking part in various movies. He quickly found work on the basis of his talent and good looks rather than his family name. He studied acting as well as dancing and singing. Due to the lack of acting opportunities, he started exploring his talents as a ...
Panama accepted the convention on 3 March 1978. [3] It has five World Heritage Sites, with a further two on the tentative list. [3] The first site in Panama added to the list was the Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama: Portobelo-San Lorenzo, in 1980.