Después funda junto a Lorenzo Hierrezuelo el emblemático dúo “Los Compadres” y en 1955 crea Compay Segundo y sus muchachos. One of the songs that featured on the album was "Buena Vista Social Club", a danzón written by It should be the thing that sets it apart. "Wenders filmed the recording sessions on the recently enhanced format The film became a box office success, grossing $23,002,182 worldwide.The first performances by the full line up of Buena Vista Social Club, including Cooder, were those filmed by Wenders in Amsterdam and New York. At the time, clubs in Cuba were segregated; there were Society in Cuba and in the Caribbean including New Orleans, as far as I know, was organized around these fraternal social clubs. This new guy [Fidel Castro] is good. Everybody was hanging out and we had rum and coffee around two in the afternoon. That's when we had the really bad times. No sé lo que será. appearances soon followed with varying line ups. During a discussion about politics, the veteran Segundo said: "Politics? Chan Chan es una canción de son compuesta por el cantante cubano Compay Segundo, que trata de dos personajes, Juanica y Chan Chan. 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. "Yo no compuse Chan Chan; la soñé.
As Cuban revolutions go, it was an entirely peaceable uprising – but its impact could not have been more profound. In 1996, American guitarist Ry Cooder had been invited to Havana by British Already on board the African collaboration project were Cuban musicians including bassist Within three days of the project's birth, Cooder, Gold and de Marcos had organized a large group of performers and arranged for recording sessions to commence at Havana's The album was recorded in just six days and contained fourteen tracks; opening with " El Buena Vista Social Club se ubicaba en el populoso barrio de Buena Vista 31 núm. Al parecer, esta anécdota era una leyenda popular granjera que Compay escuchaba habitualmente de pequeño. That's what gave it a handle.Upon release on 17 September 1997, the CD became a huge "word of mouth hit", far beyond that of most world music releases.A total of twenty musicians contributed to the recording including Ry Cooder's son Many of the Cuban musicians who featured on the album were at their musical prime in the 1940s and 1950s. Compay Segundo y el Buena Vista Social Club. It felt like a club, so let's call it that. It was a kind of club by then. Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan (Official Video) - YouTube En la canción, primero se mencionan cuatro localidades del En el último verso, alguien pide que se le quite la paja del camino para que él pueda sentarse en el tronco que ve, porque así no puede llegar. Groups such as Los Van Van and Irakere established modern forms of Cuban music, paving the way for new rhythms and dances to emerge as well as fresh concepts in instrumentation. They named the group after the homonymous members' club in the Buenavista quarter of Havana, a popular music venue in the 1940s. En los años treinta integró agrupaciones como el “Cuarteto de Trovadores Orientales” y el Cuarteto Hatuey, e incluso fue vocalista del conjunto de Miguel Matamoros.
Club social. ... Cuba's dance music had already inspired a change from the older son-style dances, as younger Cubans broke free of step-oriented dances...The occurrence of these closures and the change in traditions is the simplest explanation of why many musicians were out of work, and why their style of music had declined before the Buena Vista Social Club made it popular again. Marques believes the notion that some music had been completely neglected in Cuba is "a romantic exaggeration that was propagated by U.S. media coverage", and the reality is that son trios have existed "everywhere in cities such as The below discography includes solo albums released since the first Torres, George.