Buena Vista Social Club

Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club is the title of a popular album of Cuban music released in 1997 by World Circuit Records, which quickly became one of the most commercially successful albums produced and marketed in the »world music« genre. The term also refers to the cadre of elderly Cuban musicians who joined American guitarist Ry Cooder to perform the music, named after the popular 1940s Havana nightclub where many of them used to perform as youngsters. In 1999, German…