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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 35-year-old man was shot and wounded by an apparent stranger just across from Prospect Park late Tuesday, cops said. The victim was blasted in the neck minutes before 11 p.m. outside an ...

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 ...