Since 2017, Blanco has been contributor and host of the "Village Voice" radio program on WGBH (Boston). Blanco has collaborated with Bacardi Havana Club on the launch of their heritage campaign "Don't Tell Us We're Not Cuban" Samuel Adams Brewery on "Love Conquers All, Pride" and Philadelphia Boys Choir on lyrics for Gershwin's re-imagined Cuban Overture. Other collaborations include musical compositions with Grammy Award-winning jazz/classical pianist and composer Paul Sullivan, prized composer Pablo Ortiz choral setting of "Leaving Limerick in the Rain" at Boston Symphony Hall for Terezin Music Foundation to honor the 70th Anniversary Liberation of Nazi concentration camps, and several poems from his recent book "How to Love a Country" by minister of music and composer Tom Davis. He was honored that his poem "One Today" was projected on the big screen at the U2 Joshua Tree tour.