Word: buena
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...Even though there's no money to be made in hip-hop, it attracts top talent. In Havana's lush Miramar neighborhood, Equis Alfonso, a.k.a. X Alfonso, 28, is talking about his upcoming hip-hop/son fusion album titled X-More. He also has some sharp words about the Buena Vista Social Club, the geezer vocal group that popularized prerevolution balladry everywhere but Cuba. "People think because of Ry Cooder and Buena Vista that Cuban music became better known," says Alfonso, who is also a member of the hot fusion group Sintesis. "That may be true...
HAVANA BALL In 1996 American blues guitarist Ry Cooder gathers some of the greatest veteran performers in Cuban music to collaborate on the album Buena Vista Social Club. The success of the bestselling, Grammy-winning recording spawns a documentary of the same name by Wim Wenders, as well as a worldwide tour, and brings the lilting, sensuously rhythmic music from the old Havana of the 1940s and '50s to an international audience...
HYPE Surefire hit, headed north of $250 million in the U.S. BOX OFFICE SO FAR $190 mil. SPIN "We're right in line with corporate goals. We may surpass $450 mil based on how it performs internationally." --Buena Vista's Chuck Viane...
...Mickey Mouse fans. Tokyo Disneyland is the world's most popular theme park, and a sister site called Disney Sea is scheduled to open nearby in September. "Pearl Harbor is obviously a subject that must be approached with cultural sensitivity," says Dick Sano, who heads the Tokyo office of Buena Vista International, the Disney unit distributing the film outside...
...billion global box office. But in Pearl Harbor, the villain isn't an iceberg--it's Japan. So Disney's marketing has had to be creative. "It's obviously a subject that must be approached with cultural sensitivity," says Dick Sano, Japanese head of the Tokyo office of Buena Vista International, the Disney unit distributing the film abroad. Trailers and ads focus solely on the love story; more controversial, Disney reshot or edited some scenes for the Japanese market...