Bringing an icon to life is no small feat, but in his portrayal of the legendary Compay Segundo, Julio Monge does more than impersonate- he channels. With an effortless blend of warmth, wit, and ...

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 ...

With his ubiquitous cigar carefully poised between muscular fingers, or stemming from his gap-toothed smile – the smoke wafting wistfully from his mouth, ever upward like a halo – the “daddy of ...

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.

As a child growing up in Key West, Florida, I knew about Cuba in the same way that astronomers know about black holes; I never saw it, but I knew it by its gravitational pull. I ate saffron rice and ...

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 ...