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 ...

At 93, guitarist and singer Compay Segundo is the oldest of the bunch. More than the other Buena Vista alumni, he telegraphs a relaxed feeling in his stage presence, dancing gingerly to his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wearing his traditional white Panama hat and smoking a cigar, the popular Cuban musician known as Compay Segundo celebrated his 94th birthday with hundreds of friends, fans, and family members ...

Compay Segundo, one of Cuba's oldest "troubadours" and charming frontman for the Buena Vista Social Club group, died this morning (July 14) in Havana. He was 95 ...

HAVANA -- Compay Segundo, 95, the wiry, cigar-smoking musician who was nearing 90 when he soared from obscurity to worldwide fame with the film and album "Buena Vista Social Club," died of kidney ...

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.

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 ...

Before he passed away at age 95, Cuban music legend Compay Segundo asked his family and friends to keep his art alive by starting a small museum in his honor.That dream now is reality with the ...

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 ...