Segundo, Compay

Segundo, Compay * November 18, 1907 – † July 13, 2003Segundo, CompayCompay Segundo Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz was born into a Cuba that had only recently attained independence from Spain. He died nearly a century later, having become world-famous for playing a very old style of music of which he was his native land’s best-known exponent. Repilado Muñoz was born into a mixed-race (Spanish and Afro-Cuban), working-class family in Siboney—heralded as the birthplace of Fidel Castro’s uprising…