"Latin Music star Ruben Blades stars in CROSSOVER DREAMS, a brash and brassy story that does for salsa music roughly what THE HARDER THEY COME did for Reggae. Blades- compared by critics to Bruce Springsteen for his charismatic performing style, driving rhythm, complex lyrics, and political savvy plays Rudy Veloz, a Barrio singing star determined to jump the salsa circuit and aim for big-time success in the mainstream. The rise-and-fall-and-rise storyline takes Rudy on a bumpy ride through life in the fast lane: drugs, compromises, easy credit, easy women, broken promises, and shattered dreams. As in EL SUPER, director Ichaso displays a gift for low-key humor and offhand vignettes, the film’s casual structure exploding in exhilarating bursts of lyricism and energy, keyed on flashy fluorescent colors and set to the pervasive Afro-Cuban rhythms provided by Blades and other Hispanic artists such as Conjunto Libre, Andy Gonzoles, Jerry Gonzales, Yomo Toro, Virginia Marti and Marco Rizo.
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