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Compay Segundo - Francisco Repilado
Guitar player, clarinet player and composer.
Francisco Repilado Muñoz, the great Compay Segundo, was born on November 18, 1907 in Siboney beach, located in Santiago de Cuba province. Being a child, his family settled down in Santiago City where he learned tobacco-roller trade. At the same time, he received music classes with young teacher Noemí Toro, who encouraged him to play any instrument. That is how he began to study the clarinet.
In 1929, he made his first trip to Havana, as clarinet player with the Municipal Music Band to participate in the inauguration of the National Capitol. His second and final trip to the capital took place in 1935 together with Ñico Saquito and his Cuban Star. Sometime after, he traveled to Mexico to join Lorenzo Hierrezuelo, also from Santiago, and together they founded in 1942 the famous "Los Compadres" duet where Hierrezuelo was the prima voice ("Compay Primo") and Francisco repilado the second voice ("Compay Seg
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Legendary Cuban guitarist Compay Segundo was born in 1907; collaborating with the likes of Sindo Garay, Miguel Matamoros and Benny Moré, he emerged as one of the most respected musicians of the pre-revolution era, and in the late '20s invented the armónico, a guitar customized with a double third string to fuse the tonal qualities of the traditional Cuban tres guitar and its Spanish counterpart. Following Fidel Castro's rise to power, Segundo worked as a cigar roller before returning to music during the late '80s; in his early nineties he attracted worldwide attention in 1998 for his contributions to Ry Cooder's wildly successful Buena Vista Social Club album, issuing the solo Calle Salud the following year. Buena Vista Connection was issued in fall 2000. Flores de la Vida fol
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He's best known for finding international success late in life after collaborating with Ry Cooder on the Buena Vista Social Club skiva, but Compay Segundo had been recognised in Cuba much earlier as one of the country's best-loved singers and composers. Moving to Santiago de Cuba at the age of nine, he began playing clarinet in the municipal band there and later graduated to playing gitarr and tres (a type of South American guitar), effectively making his name playing tres and singing in the duo Los Compadres with Lorenzo Hierrezuelo in the 1950s. They became hugely popular in Cuba for their traditional style rooted in the folk music of