Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz Telles, known professionally as "Compay Segundo", was a Cuban trova guitarist, singer and composer. Compay (meaning compadre) Segundo, so called because he was always ...
Seated comfortably on the balcony of the Hotel Nacional and savoring his ever-present cigar, singer-guitarist Compay Segundo begins to reflect on his 93 years. He hardly could have chosen a more ...
Compay Segundo, the avuncular Cuban vocalist who was plucked from obscurity to become a nonagenarian recording star with the “Buena Vista Social Club,” died Sunday night in Havana. He was 95 and the ...