BVSC presents Ibrahim Ferrer is the second album from the series of records by artists who participated in the legendary Buena Vista Social Club sessions, an album which exploded around the world and ...

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BVSC presents Ibrahim Ferrer is the second album from the series of records by artists who participated in the legendary Buena Vista Social Club sessions, an album which exploded around the world and ...

Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer died Saturday in Havana of multiple organ failure at the age of 78. He rose to fame as part of the Buena Vista Social Club project. And before we go, a few words from ...

Cuban vocalist Ibrahim Ferrer died over the weekend in Havana, Cuba. Ferrer played a starring role in one of the feel-good stories of the 1990s, the Buena Vista Social Club, a group of long-forgotten ...

It was the obituary I dreaded: Ibrahim Ferrer, the dulcet tenor with the bespectacled mien and the cap he always wore brim forward. A dark-skinned, lanky man who sang backup in Beny More’s band, who ...

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It could have been tempting for Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer, at 76, to play out his days revisiting the success of the Buena Vista Social Club. The legendary jazz ensemble assembled for a 1997 ...

The revival of interest in midcentury Cuban music that began with the 1997 Ry Cooder-produced album "Buena Vista Social Club" and the subsequent Wim Wenders documentary continues to expand with ...