Compay Segundo could have easily lived out his life in the relative obscurity that had characterized most of his more than seven decades as a professional musician. Fate, however, decreed otherwise.

Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz Telles, known professionally as "Compay Segundo", was a Cuban trova guitarist, singer and composer. Compay (meaning compadre) Segundo, so called because he was always ...

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 ...

With his ubiquitous cigar carefully poised between muscular fingers, or stemming from his gap-toothed smile – the smoke wafting wistfully from his mouth, ever upward like a halo – the “daddy of ...

Compay Segundo, who was nearing 90 when he shot from obscurity to worldwide fame with the "Buena Vista Social Club," has died in Havana. He was 95. Born Maximo Francisco Repilado Munoz, the wiry, ...

La voz de Salvador Repilado suena risueña y emocionada al otro lado del teléfono. «Estamos inaugurando la primavera en el sur de Francia. Todo está verde y soleado, estoy deseando ver cómo está España ...

As a child growing up in Key West, Florida, I knew about Cuba in the same way that astronomers know about black holes; I never saw it, but I knew it by its gravitational pull. I ate saffron rice and ...

O guitarrista e cantor Compay Segundo – uma verdadeira lenda da música cubana – morreu na madrugada desta segunda-feira, aos 95 anos, em Havana. A informação foi anunciada pela gravadora Dro-EastWest, ...

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 ...

"Yo nací en Oriente, en un pueblo que se llama Siboney, al pie de El Caney, donde las frutas son como flores, llenas de aroma y saturadas de miel", decía en una entrevista concedida a la BBC hace un ...