Buena Vista Social Club
Cuba
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Genres: Latin, Jazz, International
Styles: World Fusion, Latin Jazz/World Fusion, Latin Jazz/World Fusion, Latin Jazz/World Fusion, Latin Jazz, Latin America, Latin America, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Bop, Cuban Jazz, Afro-Cuban, Modern Son, Son
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Less a band than an assemblage of some of Cuba's most renowned musical forces, Buena Vista Social Club's origins lie with noted American guitarist Ry Cooder, who in 1996 traveled to Havana to seek out a number of legendary local musicians whose performing careers largely ended decades earlier with the rise of Fidel Castro. Recruiting the long-forgotten likes of singer Ibrahim Ferrer, guitarists/singers Compay Segundo and Eliades Ochoa, and pianist Rubén González, Cooder entered Havana's Egrem Studios to record the album Buena Vista Social Clu...
See also
- Ry Cooder (81)
- Omara Portuondo (27)
- Ibrahim Ferrer (7)
- Eliades Ochoa (7)
- Compay Segundo (5)
Similar artists
- Sierra Maestra (4)
- Los Super Seven (3)
- Soneros De Verdad (2)
- Bacalao (0)
- Los Van Van (0)
Influenced by
Followers
- Arturo Sandoval (34)
- Pink Martini (32)
- Authority Zero (19)
- Alex Cuba (1)
- Terrence Howard (1)
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