HAVANA – Ibrahim Ferrer (search), a leading voice with the hugely popular Buena Vista Social Club (search) of vintage Cuban performers, died Saturday, his representative in Cuba said. He was 78. The ...

Very few people can boast the strange, unexpected and fortuitous resurrection of their careers that singer Ibrahim Ferrer has had. Literally pulled out of retirement, Ferrer gave the new millennia a ...

Ibrahim Ferrer of the Buena Vista Social Club died Saturday in Havana, Cuba, after a week-long bout with emphysema. The Afro-Cuban vocalist was seventy-eight years old. Ferrer was one of the founding ...

BVSC presents Ibrahim Ferrer is the second album from the series of records by artists who participated in the legendary Buena Vista Social Club sessions, an album which exploded around the world and ...

Ibrahim Ferrer, a leading voice with the hugely popular Buena Vista Social Club of vintage Cuban performers, died Saturday, his representative in Cuba said. He was 78. The Montuno production company ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Ibrahim Ferrer was just a few weeks away from finishing his third solo ...

You can’t blame Ry Cooder for wanting to try something new. It’s been six years since the original Buena Vista Social Club sessions and almost 50 years since prerevolutionary Cuban music had its ...

I’ve been poking around my interview archives and thought it would be nice to select a few to share again. The first one, apropos of the recent focus on Cuba, is an interview with the late Ibrahim ...

Ibrahim Ferrer, the distinguished 78 year old front man of the Buena Vista Social Club band, died August 6 in Havana, Cuba. Ferrer fell ill last week after returning to Havana from a month-long ...

Hollywood Bowl's World Festival notched its first sold-out house Sunday night, catching what may well be the high tide of the Buena Vista Social Club phenomenon. At the center of the craze, and the ...

With its red carpet and chandeliers, Raleigh Memorial Hall is not the first place you think of to go hear Afro-Cuban music. Despite that, and what many considered high ticket prices ($45 a pop), the ...

Ibrahim Ferrer, the humble, soft-spoken Cuban singer who achieved long-delayed international fame only after he was recruited for the Grammy-winning Buena Vista Social Club, has died. He was 78. Mr.