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Spanish. Box office. $23 million [ 2] Buena Vista Social Club is a 1999 documentary film directed by Wim Wenders about the music of Cuba. It is named for a danzón that became the title piece of the album Buena Vista Social Club. The film is an international co-production of Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Cuba .
Buena Vista Social Club is a studio album by Buena Vista Social Club, an ensemble of Cuban musicians directed by Juan de Marcos González and American guitarist Ry Cooder. Produced by Cooder, it was recorded at Havana's EGREM studios in March 1996 and released on September 16, 1997, through World Circuit internationally and Nonesuch Records in ...
Buena Vista Social Club was a musical ensemble primarily made up of Cuban musicians, formed in 1996. The project was organized by World Circuit executive Nick Gold, produced by American guitarist Ry Cooder and directed by Juan de Marcos González. They named the group after the members' club of the same name in the Buenavista quarter of Havana ...
Buena Vista Social Club singles chronology. " Chan Chan ". (1997) "Candela". (1998) " Chan Chan " is a 1984 son composition by Cuban trovador Compay Segundo. It was first recorded in 1985 by Compay Segundo's own group. [1] In 1987, he approached Eliades Ochoa, who agreed to record a version with the Cuarteto Patria.
Ry Cooder. Ryland Peter Cooder (born March 15, 1947) is an American musician, songwriter, film score composer, record producer, and writer. He is a multi-instrumentalist but is best known for his slide guitar work, his interest in traditional music, and his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries.
Buena Vista Social Club: Adios is a 2017 documentary film directed by Lucy Walker. [4] It is a follow-up to the 1999 documentary Buena Vista Social Club about Cuban music. [ 5 ] The film was released in theaters on May 26, 2017.
The recording was made on March 19, 1941 with vocals by Helen O'Connell and Bob Eberly [ 1] and released by Decca Records as catalog number 3698. The flip side was " Maria Elena ." The record first reached the Billboard charts on May 9, 1941 and lasted 21 weeks on the chart, peaking at #1. [ 3] Since "Maria Elena" was also a #1 hit, this was a ...
Rhythms del Mundo is a nonprofit collaborative album, which fuses an all-star cast of Cuban musicians including Ibrahim Ferrer and Omara Portuondo of the Buena Vista Social Club with tracks from US, UK and Irish artists such as Dido, Arctic Monkeys, U2, Coldplay, Sting, Jack Johnson, Maroon 5, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs and others.