Compay Segundo, the veteran Cuban guitarist-singer who won international recognition late in life as part of the Buena Vista Social Club, died Saturday of kidney failure at his home in Havana. He was ...

HAVANA -- Compay Segundo, 95, the wiry, cigar-smoking musician who was nearing 90 when he soared from obscurity to worldwide fame with the film and album "Buena Vista Social Club," died of kidney ...

Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz Telles, known professionally as "Compay Segundo", was a Cuban trova guitarist, singer and composer. Compay (meaning compadre) Segundo, so called because he was always ...

Cuban composer, singer and guitarist Compay Segundo died in Havana Sunday. He was 95. Segundo gained worldwide fame as the frontman for the group of musicians who played in the documentary Buena Vista ...

COMPAY SEGUNDO, 95, died in his professional prime. Well known during the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s, the golden age of Cuban son music, Segundo saw his traditional balladeering trail into obscurity, and he ...