Word: buena
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sound of a lost world. Listen to the exquisitely romantic lilt of the voice floating out of Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer, and you can imagine the rakish young Cuban singer, decades ago, strolling the elegant boulevards of Havana. It was there that Ferrer first emerged as one of the acclaimed masters of son, the rural folk style that spawned mambo and salsa. Those were the golden days of Cuban music, before the revolution left many of the great artists of Ferrer's generation scraping to get by. Despite his skill, including a way of making the traditionally...
...Ferrer was plucked off a Havana street by California guitarist Ry Cooder, who invited him to sing on a new album he was producing, Buena Vista Social Club. That record became a surprise hit in America, in no small part because of Ferrer's expert work, and led to this, his solo debut. "The Cuban Nat King Cole," as Cooder calls him, now savors a sweet, unexpected stardom. Says he: "I've been able to fix up my house a little." Ferrer is 72, and his voice lacks the strength it once had, but its power is undiminished...
That would not include the company's top online executive, Jake Winebaum, head of Disney's Buena Vista Internet Group, who last week became the latest and greatest of Mouse managers to leave to pursue his own Net business, free of Disney's corporate control...
...went through the hardest part. A dozen years ago, a label threw me out when I tried to use congas on a recording. They said, 'Get rid of that, and take out the horns and the timbales too.' Now people are buying records by Arturo Sandoval and Buena Vista Social Club. The younger generation is now reacting to Latin music...
...diamond-shape logo sewn onto shirts, shorts and pants--is totally core, commanding huge respect within the genre of attitude-drenched brands that cool 15-year-olds crave. "Whatever they put the stone on is gonna rock out the door," says Joe Luzzia, owner of Identity Board Shop in Buena Vista, Calif. "You can tell they're the next big thing...