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Buena Vista Social Club: From Hollywood Glamour to Bloody Revolution, How an Island of Mystery Produced a Musical Sensation by Hayley Levitt

In March 1996, 20 musicians"many of them stars of Cuba's pre-revolution "golden age""spent six days in Havana's EGREM studio recording Buena Vista Social Club. As the story goes, World Circuit executive Nick Gold had the idea to record two albums in the Cuban capital: a big band tribute album featuring Havana native Juan de Marcos González on tres guitar (the start of González's Afro-Cuban All Stars), and an al…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:06AM on March 10, 2025

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