HAVANA -- Compay Segundo, 95, the wiry, cigar-smoking musician who was nearing 90 when he soared from obscurity to worldwide fame with the film and album "Buena Vista Social Club," died of kidney ...

Compay Segundo, the wiry, cigar-smoking musician who was nearing 90 when he soared from obscurity to worldwide fame with the ” Buena Vista Social Club, ” has died in Havana. He was 95. Mr. Compay, who ...

This brilliant number, a dazzling distillation of music and dance, is just one of a terrific series of musical set-pieces in the Broadway transfer of Buena Vista Social Club (Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre ...

It would be hard to imagine a better group of artists to bring to life the golden age of Cuban music that the one Ry Cooder cobbled together in Havana nearly three decades ago. Guitarist, vocalist and ...

Cuba is roughly 1,300 miles away, but in a rehearsal space in downtown Manhattan, it doesn’t feel all that far. Cradling their percussion instruments, horns, and guitars, a ten-piece band of musicians ...