He was born in Ballesteros, in the province of Córdoba on 5 November 1947 and raised in Avellaneda (south of Greater Buenos Aires).
[citation needed] When the bandoneonist Aníbal Troilo (1914–1975) went to watch him the first time, Rubén asked him to be his artistic godfather.
Since that time, he had acted in Argentina and abroad, and recorded songs with artists like Armando Pontier, Charly García, Pedro Aznar, Leopoldo Federico, Raúl Garello, Litto Nebbia, the guitarist Roberto Grela and José Colángelo.
In 2008, he was diagnosed to prostate cancer which obligated him to undergo to chemotherapy sessions every three weeks in the city of Córdoba.
In the night of 28 May 2010, the actor and broadcaster Coco Sily interrupted his program Animales Sueltos to ask for Actor's House to send an ambulance to take him from Villa Carlos Paz to Buenos Aires, since he had suffered a decompensation that forced him to leave his home.