Guaguanco callejero ibrahim ferrer biography

  • Ibrahim Ferrer (February 20, 1927 – August 6, 2005) was a popular Afro-Cuban singer and musician in Cuba.
  • Ibrahim Ferrer (February 20, 1927 – August 6, 2005) was a Cuban singer who played with Los Bocucos for nearly forty years.
  • This loveable man brings one of the most moving interpretations ever to THE richest form of music on earth.
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    Ibrahim Ferrer (February 20, 1927 – August 6, 2005) was a popular Afro-Cuban singer and musician in Cuba. He performed with many musical groups including the Conjunto Sorpresa, Orquesta Chepin-Choven and Afro-Cuban All Stars. Later in life, Ferrer became a member of the internationally successful Buena Vista Social Club.


    Ibrahim Ferrer was one of the greatest of Cuban singers. A charming and humble man, he was blessed with a voice that could tackle anything from Cuba's romantic ballads - boleros - to the up-tempo improvised son dance songs that were the speciality of his early career. Ferrer established his worldwide reputation late in life, after a transformation of his fortunes. In the 1990s, he moved from impoverished retirement, in which he supplemented his tiny pension by earning occasional money as an elderly shoeshine "boy" or selling lottery tickets, to the concert halls of the world, first as lead male singer with the bestselling Buena Vista Social Club,

    Having retired from almost 40 years of performing, Ibrahim Ferrer was shining shoes in 1996 before being approached by Afro-Cuban All Stars’ band leader, Juan de Marcos González. Ferrer then sang on the sessions that would become the original Buena Vista Social Club album, which sold more than eight million copies and catapulted Ferrer to international fame. 

    Buenos Hermanos was originally released in 2003 prior to Ferrer’s first solo album, Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer. Acclaimed for firmly rooting itself within the Cuban tradition, this album sought the horizons of 21st century sounds and modernity leading to the success of a Grammy as Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album.

    Almost two decades later, slide-guitar specialist and film composer Ry Cooder has returned to the original tapes to remix them as well as include four unheard tracks from the sessions.

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    When asked about Buenos Hermanos reimagined, Cooder said “We went back into