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Each concert, he recalled, had to begin with a waltz and several stately danzon dance pieces " The record, which won a 1997 Grammy, was named after a former club in Havana and features traditional Cuban son He was honored with a Grammy as part of the "Buena Vista Social Club" in his 90th year and helped draw attention to other aging but talented Cuban musicians Cuban "son" â€â€? mixing harder African rhythms with Spanish lyricism â€â€? was coming into its own, breaking down discrimination against "black" music and laying the groundwork for modern Cuban music such as salsa Compay emerged as a well-known musician in Cuba, playing with Nico Saquito, the Cuarteto Hatuey and his own duo, Los Compadres, until 1953 His day job was rolling H He was 95 A widely praised film of the same name, based on the sessions, was directed by Wim Wenders "It was the era of romanticism," he said in a 1998 interview with The Associated Press, setting down a glass of rum to saw at an imaginary violin He moved a bit slowly and was slightly hard of hearing, but remained notably lucid you shouldn't succumb to boredom," he told reporters Suarez said he told friends that he had smoked his first cigar at age 5, and he continued smoking nearly to the time of his death His hat lay amid flowers atop his wooden casket Monday Compay was playing at Havana hotel when a Spanish tourist heard him and invited him to perform in Spain in 1994 By age 14, he was playing the clarinet in his hometown's municipal band He got his nickname when he was about 40 and performing as the second voice in the duo "Los Compadres" â€â€? a word Cubans shorten to "compay Born Maximo Francisco Repilado Munoz, Company carried traditional Cuban music to the world He developed a unique seven-string guitar that he called the "armonica" that had a doubled middle string to add harmonics for Cuban son rhythms The record, and Compay's popularity, also helped bring renewed fame to musicians such as Pio Leyva, Ruben Gonzalez and Portuondo 18, 1907, in the eastern town of Siboney, he was 9 when he moved with his family to nearby Santiago, the heart of Cuban musical culture Nearby stood a huge bouquet of flowers sent by Cuban President Fidel Castro After the 1959 triumph of the Cuban revolution led by Castro, Compay continued to perform intermittently as a solo artist and occasionally made appearances on local radio stations Born Nov On July 8, he had played briefly at a tribute concert hosted by his sons at Havana's Hotel Nacional, where a concert room is dedicated to him "I feel content, successful Upmann coronas in a local cigar factory Following the viewing in Havana, his body was being taken for burial Tuesday to his boyhood home in Santiago Compay was noted for his sporty, Borsalino-type hats and a seemingly ever-present cigar Compay, who performed in public less than a week before his death, died of kidney failure Sunday night, said his granddaughter, Frances Valeria Repilado He was a hit, and went on to make several records there Grammy-Winner Compay Segundo Dies at 95 Jul 14, 2:47 PM EST Compay Segundo, the wiry, cigar-smoking musician who was nearing 90 when he soared from obscurity to worldwide fame with the "Buena Vista Social Club," has died in Havana The Hotel Nacional held a three-day celebration in Compay's honor on his 95th birthday last year " In the late 1950s, he formed a group called "Compay Segundo y sus Muchachos" (Compay Segundo and his Boys) for a tour of the Dominican Republic "Symbolically, he represented our culture to the entire world," said Omara Portuondo, who sang on the "Buena Vista" record and who stood alongside Compay's casket during a viewing at a Havana funeral home Monday " At an appearance last week, he told reporters he would like to father another child " A longtime musician in Compay's group, guitarist Benito Suarez, said Compay was "always happy, joking "I would say that he is part of the Cuban flag A few years later, he was packing concert halls in Europe and his fame grew far wider when he was featured on the hit record "Buena Vista Social Club The Cuban music magazine "Salsa Cubana" reported that some music experts in the 1980s did not even know he was still alive Compay set audiences dancing from Havana to Paris with hits such as "Chan Chan," which brought modern appeal to a musical genre that had largely been forgotten even at home in Cuba Kelley was interested in bringing him onto the show " He asked for a video so he could watch an episode â€â€?â€â€?â€â€? On the Net: http://abc " Spader plays a lawyer with questionable ethics on "The Practice," which has its season premiere on Sunday " "Considering everything that happened, it would have been very easy for him to say, `OK, well maybe the show has come to a sort of conclusion,' and instead, he had this idea of sort of turning the show upside down and sort of putting it on its ear," Spader said com/primetime/thepractice/index "He said, `You want to be part of that?' That sounded like fun to me Spader said that when Kelley sent him a draft of this season's first episode, he realized he "couldn't put a face on any of the names in the script Spader Set for Debut on 'The Practice' Sep 27, 9:26 AM EST James Spader says he'd never watched "The Practice" until he got a call that series creator David E html Kelley has attributed the departures to "economic and creative realities The ABC legal drama, returning from the brink of cancellation for its eighth season, is minus star Dylan McDermott and five other cast members go "Of course, (it) had all the characters who are no longer on the show," the 43-year-old actor told reporters in Los Angeles recently, according to AP Radio |
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