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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 ...

HAVANA - Ibrahim Ferrer, the mild-mannered singer of the Buena Vista Social Club group that took him from shining shoes to world fame late in life, died on Saturday in Havana, his manager said. He was ...

It was the obituary I dreaded: Ibrahim Ferrer, the dulcet tenor with the bespectacled mien and the cap he always wore brim forward. A dark-skinned, lanky man who sang backup in Beny More’s band, who ...

Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer died Saturday in Havana of multiple organ failure at the age of 78. He rose to fame as part of the Buena Vista Social Club project. And before we go, a few words from ...

Cuban vocalist Ibrahim Ferrer died over the weekend in Havana, Cuba. Ferrer played a starring role in one of the feel-good stories of the 1990s, the Buena Vista Social Club, a group of long-forgotten ...

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It could have been tempting for Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer, at 76, to play out his days revisiting the success of the Buena Vista Social Club. The legendary jazz ensemble assembled for a 1997 ...

The revival of interest in midcentury Cuban music that began with the 1997 Ry Cooder-produced album "Buena Vista Social Club" and the subsequent Wim Wenders documentary continues to expand with ...

Given this Cuban singer’s keen understanding of pre-Castro styles and his rags-to-riches comeback story, 1999’s Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer was guaranteed to impress world-music ...