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15th July 2003, 23:57
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'Buena Vista Social Club' singer dies at age 95
July 15, 2003
HAVANA (AP) - Compay Segundo, a once-forgotten Cuban musician who gained worldwide fame with the "Buena Vista Social Club," died Sunday. He was 95.
Cuban state television said he died of kidney failure, two days after attending a tribute concert host ed by his sons at Havana's Hotel Naci onal, where a concert room is dedicated to him.
Born Maximo Francisco Repilado Munoz, the wiry, cigar-smoking musician carried traditional Cuban music to the world. He was honored with a Grammy as part of the "Buena Vista Social Club" in his 90th year and helped draw attention to other aging Cuban musicians.
Compay set audiences dancing from Havana to Paris with hits like Chan Chan, which brought modern appeal to a musical genre that had largely been forgotten even at home in Cuba.
Compay developed a unique seven-string guitar that he called the "armonica" that had a doubled middle string to add harmonics for Cuban rhythms.
He got his nickname when he was about 40 and performing as the second voice in the duo "Los Compadres" - a word Cubans shorten to "compay."
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'Buena Vista Social Club' singer dies at age 95
July 15, 2003
HAVANA (AP) - Compay Segundo, a once-forgotten Cuban musician who gained worldwide fame with the "Buena Vista Social Club," died Sunday. He was 95.
Cuban state television said he died of kidney failure, two days after attending a tribute concert host ed by his sons at Havana's Hotel Naci onal, where a concert room is dedicated to him.
Born Maximo Francisco Repilado Munoz, the wiry, cigar-smoking musician carried traditional Cuban music to the world. He was honored with a Grammy as part of the "Buena Vista Social Club" in his 90th year and helped draw attention to other aging Cuban musicians.
Compay set audiences dancing from Havana to Paris with hits like Chan Chan, which brought modern appeal to a musical genre that had largely been forgotten even at home in Cuba.
Compay developed a unique seven-string guitar that he called the "armonica" that had a doubled middle string to add harmonics for Cuban rhythms.
He got his nickname when he was about 40 and performing as the second voice in the duo "Los Compadres" - a word Cubans shorten to "compay."
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