Discussione:Compay Segundo

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Compay Segundo

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Compay Segundo (November 18, 1907 - July 14, 2003), was a Cuban musician and composer.

He was born Maximo Francisco Repilado Munoz and brought up in the city of Santiago. He became a popular composer and performer, well-known to fans of Cuban music. He was also the inventor of the armònico, a seven-stringed guitar-like instrument. However, fame only came in 1997 with the release of the Buena Vista Social Club album, which won several Grammy awards. Compay Segundo appeared in the film of the same title, made subsequently by Wim Wenders.

He predicted that he would live to be 115, but died of kidney failure in Havana, twenty years short of his ambition.