Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz Telles, known professionally as "Compay Segundo", was a Cuban trova guitarist, singer and composer. Compay (meaning compadre) Segundo, so called because he was always ...

La Habana, 4 dic (EFE).La Habana, 4 dic (EFE). — El músico cubano Basilio Repilado, hijo del famoso Compay Segundo y que sucedió a su padre como segunda voz en la agrupación que lleva su nombre, ...

Compay Segundo, who was nearing 90 when he shot from obscurity to worldwide fame with the "Buena Vista Social Club," has died in Havana. He was 95. Born Maximo Francisco Repilado Munoz, the wiry, ...

Compay Segundo could have easily lived out his life in the relative obscurity that had characterized most of his more than seven decades as a professional musician. Fate, however, decreed otherwise.

Compay Segundo, a long-forgotten Cuban musician who burst onto the global stage with the Grammy-winning “Buena Vista Social Club,” died in Havana of kidney failure. He was 95. The cigar-smoking singer ...

Compay Segundo, the avuncular Cuban vocalist who was plucked from obscurity to become a nonagenarian recording star with the “Buena Vista Social Club,” died Sunday night in Havana. He was 95 and the ...

Cuban composer, singer and guitarist Compay Segundo died in Havana Sunday. He was 95. Segundo gained worldwide fame as the frontman for the group of musicians who played in the documentary Buena Vista ...

Compay Segundo, the wiry, cigar-smoking musician who was nearing 90 when he soared from obscurity to worldwide fame with the ” Buena Vista Social Club, ” has died in Havana. He was 95. Mr. Compay, who ...

The phenomenal success of the Buena Vista Social Club did much to reawaken interest in Cuban music around the globe, but more remarkable was the effect the album had on the lives of its featured ...

Compay Segundo, the veteran Cuban guitarist-singer who won international recognition late in life as part of the Buena Vista Social Club, died Saturday of kidney failure at his home in Havana. He was ...

July 14, 2003 • Segundo, a member of the internationally famous Buena Vista Social Club, was known for his unique styles of singing and playing the guitar. According to producer Ry Cooder, Segundo's ...