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Buena Vista Social Club (1999) is a documentary film by Wim Wenders about the music of Cuba.

The film documents how Ry Cooder, long-time friend of Wenders, brought together legendary Cuban musicians to record a CD of the same name, and to perform a concert in the USA. Although geographically close, travel between Cuba and the USA is restricted due to the political tension between the two countries, so many of the artists were travelling there for the first time. The film shows their reactions to this experience, as well as including footage of the resultant sell-out concert. It also includes touching interviews with each of the main performers.

It made the musicians, some of them already in their nineties, known to a world-wide audience, and some went on to release popular solo albums; these included Ibrahim Ferrer, Compay Segundo, Rubén González and Elíades Ochoa.

The film was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000.

There is also an album by the same name, which features studio versions of the music heard in the movie.

Musicians (in order of appearance)

Francisco Repilado, "Compay Segundo" (vocals and tres)
Eliades Ochoa (vocals and guitar)
Ry Cooder (slide guitar)
Joachim Cooder, his son (percussion)
Ibrahim Ferrer (vocals, congas, claves, bongos)
Omara Portuondo (vocals)
Rubén González (piano)
Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez (Double bass)
Amadito Valdés
Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal (trumpet)
Barbarito Torres (laud)
Pío Leyva
Manuel "Puntillita" Licea (vocals)
Juan de Marcos Gonzales (güiro)

Songs in the film (in order of appearance)

"Chan Chan" (Francisco Repilado)
"Silencio" (Rafael Hernandez)
"Chattanooga Choo Choo" (Harry Warren and Mack Gordon)
"Dos Gardenias" (Isolina Carillo)
"Veinte Años" (Maria Teresa Vera),
"Y Tu Que Has Hecho" (Eusebio Delfin),
"Black Bottom" (Ray Henderson, Lew Brown and B. G. De Sylva)
"Canto Siboney" (Ernesto Lecuona),
"El Carretero" (Guillermito Portulez)
"Cienfuegos (tiene su guaguanco)" (Victor Lay)
"Begin The Beguine" (Cole Porter)
"Buena Vista Social Club" (Orestes Lopez, inventor of the mambo in 1937)
"Mandinga" (also known as "Bilongo", Guillermo Rodriguez Fiffe)
"Candela" (Faustino Oramas),
"Chanchullo" (Israel "Cachao" Lopez, the father of Cachaito)
"El cuarto de Tula" (son/descarga, Sergo Siaba),
"Guateque Campesino" (Celia Romeo "Guateque"),
"Nuestra Ultima Cita" (Forero Esther)
"Quizás, Quizás, Quizás" (boléro by Oswaldo Farres).

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