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 ...

Cuban composer, singer and guitarist Compay Segundo died in Havana Sunday. He was 95. Segundo gained worldwide fame as the frontman for the group of musicians who played in the documentary Buena Vista ...

Many Cubans had forgotten Compay Segundo, who died on Monday, until a US record producer arrived in Havana in 1996 and launched Segundo and his fellow musicians onto the world stage with the release ...

Cuban musician Compay Segundo, who starred in Wim Wenders' film Buena Vista Social Club, has died in Havana aged 95. The performer had cancelled a series of concerts planned for this summer around ...

Compay Segundo, the avuncular Cuban vocalist who was plucked from obscurity to become a nonagenarian recording star with the “Buena Vista Social Club,” died Sunday night in Havana. He was 95 and the ...

Cuban guitar maestro Compay Segundo has been buried in his hometown of Santiago de Cuba. Thousands of people took part in a funeral procession on Tuesday, singing one of Segundo's songs as he was ...

HAVANA -- Compay Segundo, 95, the wiry, cigar-smoking musician who was nearing 90 when he soared from obscurity to worldwide fame with the film and album "Buena Vista Social Club," died of kidney ...

Compay Segundo, who has died aged 95, was one of the prime inspirers and performers of the film Buena Vista Social Club (1998), in which he and other Cuban musicians relived the great days they had ...

Cuban guitar maestro Compay Segundo has been buried in his hometown of Santiago de Cuba. Thousands of people took part in a funeral procession on Tuesday, singing one of Segundo's songs as he was ...