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Buena Vista Social Club

In 1996 a group of veteran musicians made a ground-breaking album of Cuban music. Musician Barbarito Torres talks about that historic recording.

In 1996 a group of veteran musicians made an album that changed the image of Cuban music for ever. Some of the artists had come out of retirement for the occasion. Laoud-player, Barbarito Torres, remembers that ground-breaking recording session in Havana and his excitement at playing on the very first Buena Vista Social Club album, which went on to sell millions of copies around the world.

(Photo: Members of the Buena Vista Social Club outside Carnegie Hall, July 1998. Credit: Donata Wenders)

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Wed 30 Sep 2015 07:50GMT

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