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 company ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer, one of the stars of the 1990s Buena Vista Social Club CD series, died Saturday (Aug. 6) in Havana at the age of 78. The artist was hospitalized three days earlier with… By ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 who has died in Havana aged 78, was the voice of the Buena Vista Social Club, the group of elderly Cuban musicians propelled to fame in the late Nineties by the world's rediscovery of ...