Omara Portuondo, la cantante cubana que es miembro del Buena Vista Social Club, es el tema de un nuevo documental que se estrena en la serie VOCES de PBS el viernes 26 de septiembre de 2025, de 10:00 ...

Omara Portuondo, die kubanische Sängerin und Mitglied des Buena Vista Social Club, ist das Thema eines neuen Dokumentarfilms, der am Freitag, dem 26. September 2025, von 22:00–23:00 Uhr ET in der ...

The music of “Buena Vista Social Club” begins immediately at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, setting the mood for the next two hours. The incredibly talented band, onstage most of the time, seemed as ...

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The dusky-voiced songbird of pre-revolutionary Cuba’s emotionally ravishing “feeling” sound was retrofitted memorably into the likewise revolutionary Buena Vista Social Club in 1996. Portuondo, who ...

“Right now, we need joy. We need to be in a space with other human beings who are having a joyful experience,” says director Saheem Ali about why the new Broadway musical Buena Vista Social Club has ...

For many, Omara Portuondo is best known for her participation in the Buena Vista Social Club; but the nonagenarian has lived many lives before and after the formation of the internationally recognized ...

Entering “Buena Vista Social Club” is like stepping into a heady world of the senses, of heightened emotions, and of passionate music and dance. The Social Club was a real place for locals in Havana ...

This brilliant number, a dazzling distillation of music and dance, is just one of a terrific series of musical set-pieces in the Broadway transfer of Buena Vista Social Club (Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre ...

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 ...

Music is the universal language of mankind, as Longfellow famously noted, and nowhere is this more evident than in live performance. Watching great musicians who enjoy a genuine rapport can be like ...

Released in September 1997, Buena Vista Social Club, the self-titled debut from the ensemble of Cuban musicians assembled by Juan de Marcos González and Ry Cooder, became a worldwide sensation by 1998 ...