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Eventually, a window was found to bring them all together in April 1998 for two nights at The Carré Theatre in Amsterdam. The concerts were such a success that this once-in-a-lifetime final show was staged at New York's Carnegie Hall, the most prestigious concert platform in America.

Due to the U.S. embargo on Cuba, most of the musicians had never been to America let alone played the Carnegie Hall and the night was an event and a celebration as much as a concert performance. "Being on stage anywhere with those musicians and singers was a dream for me,'' recalls band leader Juan de Marcos. '' But Carnegie Hall was something else. It's the top venue in the world and I was so happy to be there and to see people like Rubén and Ibrahim on that stage. It was never going to happen. Except that it did." After that night, it was clear there would not be another concert; busy schedules kept the individual musicians touring and recording with their own projects, the brief window of opportunity for U.S. shows closed with the renewing of political hostilities and sadly within a few years a number of Buena Vista's leading stars including Rubén González, Compay Segundo and Ibrahim Ferrer had passed away.
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