Cuban singer Omara Portuondo, the only female member of the Buena Vista Social Club, won a Latin Grammy two years ago. She was 78 years old at the time. Now she’s celebrating her 80th birthday with a ...

Anyone who saw the 1997 movie "Buena Vista Social Club" about a group of disparate Cuban musicians who are "rediscovered" after many years and retake the stage to perform in concert remembers the sole ...

"La música es mi cielo, tierra, mar, sol, alegría, y razón." Living in this manner – "Music is my heaven, earth, sea, sun, happiness, and reason" – Cuban legend Omara Portuondo is the personification ...

PERHAPS the sweetest surprise in the ongoing saga of the Buena Vista Social Club has been the late-blooming success afforded vocalist Ibrahim Ferrer. Of the Cuban music elders whose careers were ...