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Buena Vista Social Club (kubanisch: [ bwˌenaβistaˈsosjalklub ], US-amerikanisch: [ ˌbwɛnəvɪstəˈsəʊʃl̩klʌb ]) ist der zur Marke gewordene Titel eines Musikalbums, das 1996 vom US-amerikanischen Gitarristen Ry Cooder bei einem Projekt mit von Juan de Marcos González zusammengestellten Altmeistern kubanischer Musik der 1940er und 1950er Jahre aufge...
Buena Vista Social Club is a studio album by Buena Vista Social Club, an ensemble of Cuban musicians directed by Juan de Marcos González and American guitarist Ry Cooder. Produced by Cooder, it was recorded at Havana's EGREM studios in March 1996 and released on September 16, 1997, through World Circuit internationally and Nonesuch ...
- March 1996
- Ry Cooder
- September 16, 1997
Juan de Marcos González (born Juan de Marcos González-Cárdenas; January 29, 1954) is a Cuban bandleader, musician and actor, best known for his work with the Buena Vista Social Club and in the 2021 Sony Pictures Animation film Vivo as the voice of Vivo's owner, Andrés.
- Juan de Marcos González-Cárdenas
- 1978–present
- Bandleader, musician, actor
Los Compadres were one of the most successful Cuban duos of their time. Greater international fame came later, in 1997, with the release of the Buena Vista Social Club album, a hugely successful recording which won several Grammy awards. Compay Segundo appeared in the Wim Wenders film of the same title.
Buena Vista Social Club™’s leading lady Omara Portuondo began her career not as a singer but as a dancer at the fabled Tropicana cabaret in Havana. In 1952 she and her older sister, Haydee teamed up with Elena Burke and Moraima Secada to form the vocal group Cuarteto D’Aida, backed by the pianist Aida Diestro.
Yet few could have predicted this iconic success when the veteran musicians who recorded Buena Vista assembled in the vintage Egrem studio in Havana in 1996. They weren’t even a formal group, but a loose collective, spanning several generations and assembled more-or-less spontaneously for the occasion. Indeed, the group that came together was ...
