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Ibrahim Ferrer (20 February 1927 – 6 August 2005) was a popular Afro-Cuban musician in Cuba. Ibrahim Ferrer's was the second of what became a line of Buena Vista releases, all hoping to cash in on the success of the first.
He was born February 20, 1927, when his mother went into labor during a dance in the Cuban village of San Luis.
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He became known internationally through Ry Cooder's Buena Vista Social Club in the late 1990s.
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He also sang with Pacho Alonso, whose Santiago-based group Los Bocucos relocated to Havana in 1959 in the wake of the Cuban Revolution -- Ferrer served with Alonso on and off for over three decades, during that time proving himself not only a master of the energetic, uptempo guarachas and sones but also a sublime bolero singer with an uncommon sense of space and silence. They performed at private functions and the two youths managed to scrape together enough money to live. Get track 2003
Profile: Singer from Cuba. With the release of the Grammy-winning album Buena Vista Social Club and an acclaimed documentary of the same name, Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer vaulted from obscurity and poverty to international fame in the twilight of his life.
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Ferrer's album is pleasant, the kind of album you could put on during brunch on a sunny morning. Radio Born 1927, died 2005 in Havana. 1999 Aquellos Ojos Verdes
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Ibrahim Ferrer (20 February 1927 – 6 August 2005) was a popular Afro-Cuban musician in Cuba. Marieta
Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. He began his professional singing career at 14, joining his cousin's vocal group Los Jovenes del Son -- Ferrer later sang with acts including Conjunto Sorpresa, Maravilla de Beltrán, Beny Moré, and Electo Rosell's jazz group La Orquesta Chepín Chovén, with whom he scored the 1955 regional hit "El Platanal de Bartolo."