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Biografía de este/a artista
Producer Ry Cooder originally intended to record Malian musicians and Cuban locals, but the Africans were unable to obtain visas, so he made an album of Cuban son instead.
∙ The original Buenavista Social Club was an actual place—a ’40s-era members-only club in Havana, exclusively for Afro-Cubans.
∙ In 1970, singer/guitarist Compay Segundo gave up music and returned to rolling cigars, which had been his livelihood in the late ’30s.
∙ The album was recorded in Havana’s historic EGREM studios, which still had much of its pre-revolutionary equipment dating back to the ’40s and ’50s.
∙ The album was recorded in six days, with sessions lasting only eight hours.
∙ Although most of its songs come from prerevolutionary Cuba, the album’s closing track, “La Bayamesa,” dates back to the turn of the 20th century.
∙ The band was the subject of a 1999 Academy Award-nominated documentary, Buena Vista Social Club, directed by Wim Wenders.
∙ In 1998, Buena Vista Social Club won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album.
Ciudad natal
Havana, Cuba
Género
Worldwide
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