The phenomenal success of the Buena Vista Social Club did much to reawaken interest in Cuban music around the globe, but more remarkable was the effect the album had on the lives of its featured ...

Cuban composer, singer and guitarist Compay Segundo died in Havana Sunday. He was 95. Segundo gained worldwide fame as the frontman for the group of musicians who played in the documentary Buena Vista ...

Compay Segundo, the avuncular Cuban vocalist who was plucked from obscurity to become a nonagenarian recording star with the “Buena Vista Social Club,” died Sunday night in Havana. He was 95 and the ...

Many Cubans had forgotten Compay Segundo, who died on Monday, until a US record producer arrived in Havana in 1996 and launched Segundo and his fellow musicians onto the world stage with the release ...

Cuban musician Compay Segundo, who starred in Wim Wenders' film Buena Vista Social Club, has died in Havana aged 95. The performer had cancelled a series of concerts planned for this summer around ...

Cuban guitar maestro Compay Segundo has been buried in his hometown of Santiago de Cuba. Thousands of people took part in a funeral procession on Tuesday, singing one of Segundo's songs as he was ...

Life did not exactly begin at 90 for Compay Segundo. But the Cuban singer, guitarist and songwriter did live long enough to experience a remarkable professional rebirth, a rediscovery of his talents ...

Squirrel Nut Zippers frontman James Mathus’ side project the Knockdown Society will perform two dates supporting legendary Chicago blues king Buddy Guy in New York (May 31) and Los Angeles (June 6).

The cigar-smoked tones of Compay Segundo, who has died aged 95 following kidney problems, were central to the musical phenomenon known as the Buena Vista Social Club. His unmistakeably gritty baritone ...

Cuban musician Compay Segundo, who starred in Wim Wenders' film Buena Vista Social Club, has died in Havana aged 95. The performer had cancelled a series of concerts planned for this summer around ...

Compay Segundo, who has died aged 95, was one of the prime inspirers and performers of the film Buena Vista Social Club (1998), in which he and other Cuban musicians relived the great days they had ...