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DIED. IBRAHIM FERRER, 78, 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...
That freedom belies the geopolitical and logistical circumstances under which Mambo was recorded. Cooder and Galban, 72, tried to create a lifetime's worth of musical repartee in pressure-packed 10-hour recording sessions. (During his exemption, Cooder also produced an album by Buena Vista vocalist Ibrahim Ferrer, Buenos Hermanos, due out in March.) "Because every minute counts," says Cooder, "you pretty much just keep the tape running." The continual recording paid off when Galban walked into the studio one day, sat down at the piano and played Bolero Sonambulo, Mambo's best track, fully formed. "You knew right away...
Cooder faces imprisonment by the U.S. government if he returns to Cuba, which means Mambo and the Ferrer album are the end of his Cuban excursions. "It's totally impossible for me to go back until some comprehensive change occurs in the embargo," says Cooder. "The sad thing is, these players are indispensable, and none of them are getting younger...
...think people were expecting the Cuban-American students to come to the conference with the same views—not advocating a return to Cuba,” said Bianca M. Ferrer, a sophomore at the University of Florida at Gainesville. “What they found was older generation Cubans calling for the youth to go to Cuba—to make their own decisions—instead just listening to their grandparents, who often have emotionally-charged opinions...
...sons and some residents of the village. The focus of contention is an old two-room schoolhouse near the cemetery, which the villagers and Hepburn's two sons had converted into a small museum commemorating her work as an actress and a UNICEF goodwill ambassador. The sons, Sean Ferrer and Luca Dotti, who run the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund, also donated family photographs, original film posters, the best-actress Oscar that Hepburn won in 1953 for Roman Holiday, and other memorabilia. Opened in October 1996 and staffed by volunteers, the museum immediately began attracting thousands of visitors from around...