With its red carpet and chandeliers, Raleigh Memorial Hall is not the first place you think of to go hear Afro-Cuban music. Despite that, and what many considered high ticket prices ($45 a pop), the ...

With Mi Sueño’s posthumous release, Ibrahim Ferrer’s dream of recording an entire CD of Boleros (Cuban ballads or love songs) was realised. When Ibrahim recorded Dos Gardenias on the Buena Vista ...

IBRAHIM Ferrer who has died in Havana aged 78, was the voice of the Buena Vista Social Club, the group of elderly Cuban musicians propelled to fame in the late Nineties by the world's rediscovery of ...