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 ...

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.

It was more than a concert, more than a celebration of ancient Cuban song forms, more than a sweeping traversal of Afro-Caribbean musical culture. The historic event that took place Monday evening in ...

Life did not exactly begin at 90 for Compay Segundo. But the Cuban singer, guitarist and songwriter did live long enough to experience a remarkable professional rebirth, a rediscovery of his talents ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

COMPAY SEGUNDO, 95, died in his professional prime. Well known during the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s, the golden age of Cuban son music, Segundo saw his traditional balladeering trail into obscurity, and he ...