{"id":66262,"date":"2016-04-06T14:13:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T18:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oncubamagazine.com\/?p=66262"},"modified":"2016-04-06T14:13:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T18:13:30","slug":"the-long-and-happy-life-of-buena-vista-social-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/music-culture\/the-long-and-happy-life-of-buena-vista-social-club\/","title":{"rendered":"The long and happy life of Buena Vista Social Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why did Ibrahim Ferrer have to shine shoes if he had the potential to win Grammy Awards, Oscar nominations, and sell out theaters around the world? Let\u2019s take a look at the scene. Slow motion: we see the audience, excited, applauding. A close-up of the musician. He is crying of happiness behind his eyeglasses, wearing an expensive suit. The same man that went from singing with Pacho Alonso and Benny More to being forgotten, and then, at the end of his life, remembered again. Was Ry Cooder his salvation?<\/p>\n<p>The book \u201cHow Cuba made the world dance,\u201d by Cuban journalist Juan Carlos Roque, offers a few answers. The answer to the question above, for instance is \u201cNo.\u201d That\u2019s what Juan de Marcos Gonzalez, the former director of the Sierra Maestra band, and founder of Buena Vista Social Club along with Cooder, says: \u201cRy Cooder never sold more than 200,000 copies of an album in his life. I think he\u2019s an excellent musician, but the success of Buena Vista Social Club was not determined by his participation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And there\u2019s more. When asked if Ry Cooder was conveniently under the shadow cast by Gonzalez, he replied: \u201cNot under my shadow, under the shadow of Cuban music and of the BVSC musicians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always like to mention the name of Juan de Marcos Gonzalez,\u201d said Barbarito Torres. \u201cHe deserves our respect. Sometimes people forget that this project was his idea, and that it was him who \u201csold\u201d it to Nick (Gold). It was then that Ry Cooder was brought in as a producer, because he was a renowned figure internationally, and had experience with ethnic music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These stories fill the pages of Roque\u2019s book, which compiles testimonies published along more than ten years for radio series broadcast by Radio Netherlands. The interviews reveal interesting aspects of the lives of the musicians and the surprising moment when they were brought to the world\u2019s attention, just when it seemed the doors had definitely closed for them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_66266\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66266\" style=\"width: 755px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bvsc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-66266 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bvsc.jpg\" alt=\"bvsc\" width=\"755\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bvsc.jpg 755w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bvsc-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: Guajiro Miraval, Israel &#8216;Cachao&#8217; Lopez, Barbarito Torrez, Juan de Marcos, Ibrahim Ferrer, Compay Segundo and Omara Portuondo in M\u00e9xico, in February 2003. Photo: Jorge Uzon\/AFP\/Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The book \u201cHow Cuba made the world dance\u201d pays tribute to these musicians. In the words of Mirian Nunez Mas, who wrote the prologue, \u201cThis project was a project that served to promote Cuba around the world. We didn\u2019t planned for it, and yet it is a reflection of our deepest authenticity. These rhythms, this perfect harmony, these voices, belong to the undeniable ambassadors of a Cuba of yesteryears, but also of today\u2019s Cuba and of the Cuba of the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Is Buena Vista Social Club a foreign album of Cuban music? Where did all these \u201caged youngsters\u201d come from \u2013as if they were trying to scare death away with their music? How did they become so famous internationally? What\u2019s left of Buena Vista Social Club?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had been planning to write this book for a while now. It\u2019s about the founders of Buena Vista Social Club, whom I met between 1999 and 2000. Following the announcement of the Adios Tour, I started to collect interviews. I interviewed all the members of the initial project for a radio series titled \u201cThe road to success,\u201d which I produced for a radio station that does not exist anymore, Radio Netherlands. Then I improved the interviews, adding context information and more details obtained in further interviews that I conducted with some of the musicians.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the book about?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The book explores the dimension of the musical phenomenon BVSC was, 20 years into its creation. It tells the stories of the lives and work of the founders. I answer several questions in the book: Was it talent or was it chance what made this project become the most successful Cuban musical project abroad? Was there a strategy to make it become what it is today? Will the legend of the BVSC musicians find heirs 20 years later, new artists who make these <em>sons<\/em> and <em>boleros<\/em> live on outside Cuba? Why did this project which is so authentically Cuban almost go unnoticed in the country where it originated? How did El Cuarto de Tula become so famous that it reached the White House? Was it intentional or just luck?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/juan_carlos_roque_compay-1024x4241.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-66265 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/juan_carlos_roque_compay-1024x4241-1024x424.jpg\" alt=\"juan_carlos_roque_compay-1024x424\" width=\"1024\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/juan_carlos_roque_compay-1024x4241.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/juan_carlos_roque_compay-1024x4241-300x124.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your personal impression of these musicians?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I sensed an enormous humbleness in my meetings with these talented musicians of BVSC. I will never forget the moment when Ibrahim Ferrer told me: \u201cI don\u2019t know how to talk about me.\u201d I can still see Compay Segundo in front of me, sipping his coffee, smiling, and humming his Chan Chan. I remember Ruben Gonzalez\u2019s kindness, sitting in front of me at the piano, playing his most famous compositions for me. Omara, telling me that she hoped to spend the rest of her live among smiles. All of them deeply impressed me, with their capacity to deal with fame without losing their authenticity as musicians with a commitment to their audience.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_66264\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66264\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/recio-1024x6141.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-66264 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/recio-1024x6141-1024x614.jpeg\" alt=\"recio-1024x614\" width=\"1024\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/recio-1024x6141.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/recio-1024x6141-300x180.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Performance at the White House in October 2015. 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