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View Booklet Listen to/Buy Album. ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ is both the name given to this extraordinary group of musicians and the album, recorded in just seven days in 1996 in Havana’s 1950s vintage EGREM studios. It was clear from the atmosphere of the recording sessions that something very special was taking place.
The leading lady of the Buena Vista Social Club, Omara Portuondo, presents her debut solo album for World Circuit. Often hailed as the Billie Holiday of Cuba, Omara’s album takes as its theme ‘Unrequited Love – love lost and found’: recorded in Havana with a dream band, orchestrated by Demetrio Muñiz, including Rubén González, Cachaíto López, Guajiro Mirabal and Jesus ‘Aguaje ...
El Buena Vista Social Club se ubicaba en el populoso barrio de Buena Vista 31 núm. 4610, entre las calles 46 y 48, Marianao.El primer presidente de esta sociedad era de apellido Travieso, del que queda vivo su hijo Raulito, dicho por Roberto González Sardiñas "El Pikin", quien asistía al jardín de infancia que por la mañana ahí se abría en la década de 1940.
BVSC presents Ibrahim Ferrer (1999) BVSC presents Ibrahim Ferrer. Described by Ry Cooder as “the Latin Nat King Cole”, Ibrahim had retired from music when he was called upon to take part in the Buena Vista sessions. Capturing the fairy tale quality of his musical rebirth, his debut solo album – produced by Ry – is infused with his ...
Buena Vista Social Club was a musical ensemble primarily made up of Cuban musicians, formed in 1996. The project was organized by World Circuit executive Nick Gold, produced by American guitarist Ry Cooder and directed by Juan de Marcos González.They named the group after the members' club of the same name in the Buenavista quarter of Havana, a popular music venue in the 1940s.
The Buena Vista Social Club is about re-establishing that link, not as a nostalgic nod, but as a necessary reconciliation. Over the last forty years, Cold War politics have stood in the way of ...
The third album, ‘Buena Vista Social Club™’ was released in June 1997 and has since come to be regarded as a classic, selling 8 million copies worldwide. Juan de Marcos González, the co-founder of the Afro Cuban All Stars and Sierra Maestra, had a long cherished dream of recording the music of Cuba’s golden era, the 1940s and 1950s ...
