The music world lost another entertainer over the weekend, the "Buena Vista Social Club" vocalist, Ibrahim Ferrer. He died in Havana. Ferrer was living in obscurity until career was resurrected in the ...
You can’t blame Ry Cooder for wanting to try something new. It’s been six years since the original Buena Vista Social Club sessions and almost 50 years since prerevolutionary Cuban music had its ...
“Buena Vista Social Club” was a social phenomenon when it came out in 1997: everyone seemed to have the album that Ry Cooder made with a group of aging Cuban musicians who finally got their ...