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 ...
Segundo was a first-class musician all his life but remained unknown outside of Cuba until his appearance in the 1997 movie The Buena Vista Social Club. Segundo, along with pianist Ruben Gonzalez and ...
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. He was 95. Mr. Compay, who ...