Ibrahim Ferrer, the humble, soft-spoken Cuban singer who achieved long-delayed international fame only after he was recruited for the Grammy-winning Buena Vista Social Club, has died. He was 78. Mr.

Very few people can boast the strange, unexpected and fortuitous resurrection of their careers that singer Ibrahim Ferrer has had. Literally pulled out of retirement, Ferrer gave the new millennia a ...

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 ...

Ibrahim Ferrer of the Buena Vista Social Club died Saturday in Havana, Cuba, after a week-long bout with emphysema. The Afro-Cuban vocalist was seventy-eight years old. Ferrer was one of the founding ...

Felix Contreras offers an appreciation of Cuban vocalist Ibrahim Ferrer, who died over the weekend. Ferrer played a starring role in the Buena Vista Social Club, a group of musicians re-discovered by ...

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The lead singer of the music group the Buena Vista Social Club, Ibrahim Ferrer, has died at 78. He didn't become a star until a 1997 film based on the Cuban group's work drew international acclaim. He ...

I’ve been poking around my interview archives and thought it would be nice to select a few to share again. The first one, apropos of the recent focus on Cuba, is an interview with the late Ibrahim ...

Ibrahim Ferrer, who has died in Havana at the age of 78, was one of greatest of all Cuban singers. A charming, remarkably humble man, he was blessed with a voice that could tackle anything from Cuba's ...

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Accept no substitutes. An album, a film, a band and a brand name - for many, the Buena Vista Social Club is Cuban music. Under its sepia-hued logo, the once forgotten singer Ibrahim Ferrer has become ...

Ibrahim Ferrer who has died in Havana aged 78, was the voice of the Buena Vista Social Club, the group of elderly Cuban musicians propelled to fame in the late 1990s by the world's rediscovery of the ...