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 ...

Compay Segundo, the avuncular Cuban vocalist who was plucked from obscurity to become a nonagenarian recording star with the “Buena Vista Social Club,” died Sunday night in Havana. He was 95 ...

Compay Segundo did not hit his commercial stride until he was almost 90 years old. That was in 1996, when he and a dozen other veteran musicians gathered in Havana to record an album of the ...

Who could be weary, though, when in the effulgent presence of the BV's elder statesman and patriarch of Cuban son music, Francisco Repilado, or, as he's nicknamed, Compay Segundo? At the Warner ...

Cuban composer, singer and guitarist Compay Segundo died in Havana Sunday. He was 95. Segundo gained worldwide fame as the frontman for the group of musicians who played in the documentary Buena ...