The Buena Vista Social Club, A representative and reinventor of traditional Cuban music, he is still alive and producing music, with older and younger members, and also in a play in the New York village.
The most recent signal is given legendary singer-songwriter and guitarist Eliades Ochoa, who has just released a new album, as a solo artist, dedicated to Christmas.
This year the group presented the theme Chan Chanavailable on the platforms of streaming.
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But it also saves its glory, like the recording of Wahirafrom Orlando Cachaito López, recorded in 2001, on 180 gram vinyl format, together with a color brochure.
After being a music club in pre-communist Cuba, The group’s career reaches the stage of the Atlantic Theater, with a libretto by Cuban-American Marco Ramírez. The group of experienced and impoverished musicians in Cuba at the end of the 20th century, in what would have been its decline, recorded three albums: Buena Vista social club (1997), Buena Vista Social Club at Carnegie Hall (2008) and Lost and found (2015).
The resulting musical is made in Broadway style, almost literally respecting the first album produced by Ry Cooder with the agency of Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer and Omara Portuondo.
The revolution that united the stars of Buena Vista Social Club
The story takes place in two contexts: 1956, the year of the communist revolution, and 1996, when a producer appears on the island seeking to reunite the stars of the old Buena Vista Social Club.
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It focuses on Omara Portuondo – who is already 93 years old – and a fictional sister, Haydeé. Together these singers, stars of the Tropicana, are successful among tourists. Haydée dreams of recording an album with an American label, but Omara is drawn to the nightclubs where the most authentic Cuban music is played.
In one of those clubs, Buena Vista, he meets Compay Segundo and Ibrahim Ferrer, with whom he falls in love, but the revolution comes immediately to divide the Cubans. Haydée flees the island with her parents and Omara remains in Cuba because of her attachment to her art. The movement closes the clubs and musicians are left without work. Forty years later they are proposed to record an album.
The performance runs until January 7 and almost all tickets until then have been sold.
Source: Eluniverso
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