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DIED. RUBEN GONZALEZ, 84, Cuban pianist who rose to international fame as a member of the Buena Vista Social Club band; of respiratory and kidney failure; in Havana. With a gutsy and playful musical style, he was a pioneer of the mambo and the cha-cha. But it wasn't until 1996, at age 77, after his only piano had been destroyed by woodworms, that he was invited to join a multi-generational group of Cuban musicians, whose Buena Vista Social Club album won a Grammy, sold some 8 million copies and was the subject of an Oscar-nominated film...
DIED. RUBéN 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...
...heart their needs. He came across as the guy next door with the same concerns. Now he has distanced himself from those people. He has become only about the war. He needs to get back in touch with Americans and their fears at home, about home. Candy Murillo Chula Vista, Calif...
...your job and you do it well or else you're out and it's hasta la vista, baby...
...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 spent nearly two decades as a roller in the H. Upmann cigar factory in Havana. Then, in his late 80s, he formed the Buena Vista Social Club with a gaggle of other aging all-stars. The eponymous album and motion picture reintroduced much of the world to Cuban music and made the charismatic Segundo perhaps the most recognizable beardless Cuban alive. The gregarious nonagenarian reveled in his stardom: he played for the Pope, surrounded himself...