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, ...

Wearing his traditional white Panama hat and smoking a cigar, the popular Cuban musician known as Compay Segundo celebrated his 94th birthday with hundreds of friends, fans, and family members Sunday… ...

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.

Compay Segundo, one of Cuba's oldest "troubadours" and charming frontman for the Buena Vista Social Club group, died this morning (July 14) in Havana. He was 95. Segundo, whose real name was… By ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...