Word: cooder
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...don’t claim to understand any of the 10 African languages Touré sings in throughout “Talking Timbuktu,” his collaboration with American multi-culturalist Ry Cooder, but I sure miss all those crazy words...
...surprise, however, may not be all bad. The sounds of light strings and island on-rhythms (and, occasionally, a guest piano lick by Mr. Cooder himself) might be just what you’re looking for while cramming, chatting, or passing...
...Cuban singer whose global fame came late in life with the hit 1997 album Buena Vista Social Club, which introduced new generations of fans to the island's traditional son music of the 1940s and '50s; in Havana. Plucked from obscurity--when asked to sing on the Ry Cooder-- produced album, Ferrer was shining shoes to supplement his retirement income--the septuagenarian was named Best New Artist in 2000 at the Latin Grammys for his first solo album...
DIED. TERRY MELCHER, 62, record producer and song-writer who collaborated with Ry Cooder, the Byrds and the Beach Boys; of melanoma; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Melcher, the son of actress Doris Day, produced the Byrds' version of Bob Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man and co-wrote the Beach Boys' pop hit Kokomo for the 1988 film Cocktail...
...GONZÁLEZ, 84, pianist and patriarch of Cuba's music scene who found late-life stardom after his appearance on the Grammy Award-winning 1997 album Buena Vista Social Club and in the subsequent documentary; in Havana. González, who was rediscovered by guitarist Ry Cooder, was initially nervous about playing on the album: he suffered from arthritis and didn't have a piano (his was ruined by termites). But he welcomed the attention and happily began performing again. "If I can't take a piano with me to heaven," he said in 2000, "then...