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 ...

La Habana, 13 jul (EFE).La Habana, 13 jul (EFE). — Hace diez años y con pocos días de diferencia se apagaron las voces de dos grandes de la música cubana con diferentes trayectorias pero cuyo legado ...

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.

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 ...

Because Compay Segundo has already released an album with a three-clarinet lineup, and because the volume of Buena Vista Social Club-related releases makes it hard to keep up with all of them, one ...

HAVANA - Looking weak but smiling broadly, the 94-year-old Compay Segundo of the "Buena Vista Social Club" gave a rare musical performance in Havana after canceling several concerts due to ill health.

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 ...