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 ...

obscurity to worldwide fame with the Buena Vista Social Club, has died in Havana. He was 95. The wiry, cigar-smoking musician whose rise from oblivion to global popularity helped make traditional ...

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 ...

Great music isn't about the notes. They arrange themselves. Great music is about the impulse of the people making it. Compay Segundo was one of those rare people - like Howlin' Wolf or Louis Armstrong ...

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, ...

Cuban guitar maestro Compay Segundo has been buried in his hometown of Santiago de Cuba. Thousands of people took part in a funeral procession on Tuesday, singing one of Segundo's songs as he was ...

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 ...

Jazz album: “Compay Segundo - 2CD Luxury Edition” by Compay Segundo, released in 2003 on Gasa. Explore the largest collection of jazz recordings @ All About Jazz ...

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 ...

Compay Segundo, who has died aged 95, was one of the prime inspirers and performers of the film Buena Vista Social Club (1998), in which he and other Cuban musicians relived the great days they had ...

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 ...

Compay Segundo, the veteran Cuban guitarist-singer who won international recognition late in life as part of the Buena Vista Social Club, died Saturday of kidney failure at his home in Havana. He was ...