Ibrahim Ferrer was just a few weeks away from finishing his third solo album, "Mi Sueño," ("My Dream") when the 78-year-old Cuban singer died after complications from emphysema. Up until that day in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Felix Contreras offers an appreciation of Cuban vocalist Ibrahim Ferrer, who died over the weekend. Ferrer played a starring role in the Buena Vista Social Club, a group of musicians re-discovered by ...

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 ...

The lead singer of the music group the Buena Vista Social Club, Ibrahim Ferrer, has died at 78. He didn't become a star until a 1997 film based on the Cuban group's work drew international acclaim. He ...

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 ...

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 ...

HAVANA - 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 ...

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 ...

NEGLECT is the essence of Cuba. Washing flaps from the balconies of what used to be thriving banks, and their once-grand elevators are caked with rust and grime. Colonial columns and cornices crumble ...