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Less a music group than an assemblage of a few of Cuba’s most renowned music forces, Buena Vista Sociable Club’s origins lay with noted American guitarist Ry Cooder, who also in 1996 traveled to Havana to search out several legendary local music artists whose performing professions had largely ended years …

Aimed by ex-Sierra Maestra drummer Juan De Marcos Gonzalez, the Afro-Cuban All Stars have already been necessary to the developing worldwide popularity of Afro-Cuban music. Their 1997 recording, A Toda Cuba Le Gusta, was the first ever to be recorded through the now-legendary Buena Vista Sociable Club classes. A multi-generational …

With the launch from the Grammy-winning album Buena Vista Social Club and an acclaimed documentary of the same name, Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer vaulted from obscurity and poverty to international fame within the twilight of his life. He was created Feb 20, 1927, when his mom proceeded to go into …