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Buena Vista Social Club, the Grammy Award-winning 1997 World Circuit album produced by Ry Cooder, is the biggest-selling world music album ever, with more than eight million records sold to date. It showcased a dream team of veterans from Cuban music's golden age and introduced the rhythms of son, bolero and danzón to a new audience making stars of Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén González, Eliades Ochoa, Omara Portuondo and Compay Segundo.
The complete original band played a sold-out, one-night-only concert at New York's Carnegie Hall on July 1st 1998. That show became the climax of the acclaimed 1999 Wim Wenders' documentary about the musicians, also called Buena Vista Social Club. The recording of that historic night is only the second release by the original band.
The Buena Vista Social Club was never a regular band: they had come together for ten days in a studio in Havana to record an album and then gone their separate ways. Some of them were touring the world with Juan de Marcos González and his Afro-Cuban All Stars. Others, such as Compay Segundo and Eliades Ochoa, had their own touring bands. Omara Portuondo had her own busy schedule and, so, too, did producer and guitarist Ry Cooder.
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