Buena Vista Social Club

Buena Vista social club held dances and musical activities becoming a popular location for musicians to meet and play during the 1940s Cuba .In the 90's about 50 years after they closed, Ry Cooder and especially Juan Marcos De Gonzalez got together aging veterans like Ibrahim Ferrer, Compay Segundo, Rubens Gonzalez ,Omara Portuondo,Barbarito Torres, Manuel Mirabal,Eliades Ochoa to record the Grammy award winning album by the same name, an ode to Cuba's golden musical age of 1930s and 1950s

The recording of the album was filmed by wim wenders as a documentary and after the success of the album, it was taken on the road to Amsterdam and Carnegie Hall in New York.Most of the original member of BVSC had not left Cuba before and never thought it would happen, anyway because of the trade embargo placed on the USA on Cuba but sometime in July 1999 they arrived in Amsterdam before playing Carnegie Hall in New York with full line up.
The success of this album sprung solo albums for Ibrahim ferrer, Compay Segundo, Rubens Gonzalez, Manuel Ochoas and Omara Portuondo which would later be known as the BVSC series

The international success of the Buena Vista Social Club generated a revival of interest in traditional Cuban music and Musical director Juan de Marcos felt that the recordings serve "as a symbol of the power of Cuban music, and which to a certain degree have contributed to Cuban music regaining the status it always had in Latin American and world music. Sadly Compay Segundo, Reubens Gonzalez and Ibrahim Ferrer died in 2003 and 2005 respectively but not without leaving us with Classics like 'Buena Vista Social Club CD and the award winning BVSC DVD of the same name and Buena Vista Social Club live at the Carnegie Hall New York and the BVSC series