SHAPIRO: The Buena Vista Social Club were musicians in their 70s and 80s who'd been all but lost to the public after the Cuban Revolution. They were reunited for a 1997 album, which sold millions of ...

Both productions were inspired by the Grammy-winning 1997 album “The Buena Vista Social Club,” a compilation of Cuban dance music produced by American jazz composer and guitarist Ry Cooder.

The music of “Buena Vista Social Club” begins immediately ... Cuban musicians to record an album. The album was named after a no longer-existing club in Havana where Black musicians gathered ...

SHAPIRO: The Buena Vista Social Club were musicians in their 70s and 80s who'd been all but lost to the public after the Cuban Revolution. They were reunited for a 1997 album, which sold millions ...

Buena Vista Social Club, which opened on Broadway on March 19, 2025, tells the story of the Cuban musical ensemble that brought to life the Grammy award-winning album, Buena Vista Social Club.

Buena Vista Social Club largely focuses on Omara's process of deciding whether to participate on the album. Her hesitation stems from her experiences in the 1950s during the Cuban Revolution ...

Now the documentary film "Buena Vista Social Club" takes to the stage, with many of the songs from the Grammy-winning album and the film.

Sparked by the death of an activist in Nicaragua, the track was used most recently in the Netflix series ‘Adolescence’ ...

Winning the Grammy for Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album, The Buena Vista Social Club remains a high watermark not just for Cuban music but world music as a whole, having been only one of two ...