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Napster and the Napster logo are registered trademarks of Rhapsody International Inc. JavaScript is disabled in your browser settings. Get app. Artist Buena Vista Social Club. Top Songs. Chan Chan. Buena Vista Social Club. De Camino a La Vereda. El Carretero. Then something extraordinary occurred. It was one of those rare records that transcended the vagaries of fad and fashion to sound timeless but utterly fresh.

That its impact had made waves far beyond the specialist world music audience was soon self-evident. Buena Vista went on to win a Grammy and its crossover success persuaded the acclaimed director Wim Wenders to make an award-winning feature film about the phenomenon. Suddenly, Buena Vista was not so much a record as a brand, albeit one based on musical quality rather than marketing hype.

Yet few could have predicted this iconic success when the veteran musicians who recorded Buena Vista assembled in the run-down Egrem studio in Havana in Indeed, the group that came together was in essence an accident: the original intention had been to make an experimental hybrid record bringing together African and Cuban musicians, but the African musicians failed to turn up because of visa problems.

In fact the original idea had been to record not one but two albums. Not that it took much coaxing: despite his years of inactivity, his playing was on fire and so eager was he to get to the piano that every morning when the janitor turned up to unlock the studio doors, he was already waiting outside. The singer Ibrahim Ferrer, who was scraping a living shining shoes and selling lottery tickets, was also rescued from obscurity — and proceeded to sing his heart out.

Eliades Ochoa the great guitarist and singer provided the rural roots from Santiago. Yet this stellar line-up of singers was only part of the story. When they had finished recording, Ry Cooder knew that he had been privileged to be part of a unique musical experience. I felt that I had trained all my life for this experience and it was a blessed thing. In Cuba, he noted, he had found the kind of deeply rooted musical context that he had been searching for all his life.

The organisation of the musical group is perfectly understood. There is no ego, no jockeying for position so they have evolved the perfect ensemble concept. But the timeless, magical music that created the Buena Vista legend lives on.

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