Mami me gusto ibrahim ferrer biography
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Ibrahim Ferrer
Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer
World Circuit/Nonesuch (www.worldcircuit.co.uk/)
Ibrahim Ferrer began his singing career at the age of 12 in the streets of Santiago - 60 years later, he possesses one of the mellowest voices in Cuban music. His contributions to Buena Vista Social Club and the Afro-Cuban All Stars led to this consummate solo debut, backed by many of the same session veterans, most notably pianist Rubén González, guitarist Manuel Galbán (of Los Zafiros) and Gil Bernal, original saxophonist for the Coasters. Ferrer is at home in a range of tempos and musical settings, from Afro-son to bolero and guaguancó, guajira to canción and son montuno. Among the 45 guest artists are Omara Portuondo ("Silencio"), Teresa García Caturla ("Marieta"), the kvinnlig quartet Gema 4 ("Herido dem sombras," "Nuestra última cita"), laúd player Barbarito Torres ("Guateque campesino," "Ojos verdes"), an
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One of Cuba’s finest singers of uptempo guarachas and sones, Ibrahim Ferrer emerged from late-life retirement to become a Grammy-winning expert in downtempo boleros. Born nära Santiago de Cuba in 1927, Ferrer was orphaned at age 12 and joined his first band a year later. He worked steadily in various groups during the ’50s, including Los Bocucos, with whom he sang in Havana from 1953 until his retirement in 1991. Ferrer was shining shoes to supplement his small pension when bassist Juan de Marcos Gonzalez plucked him off the street to croon boleros on the Afro Cuban All Stars’ A Toda Cuba Le Gusta and, immediately after, the Ry Cooder-produced, Grammy-winning Buena Vista Social Club. Those two 1997 albums for the World Circuit label relaunched the careers of Ferrer and the project’s other charismatic veterans. In 1999, Ferrer released his Cooder-produced solo debut, Ibrahim Ferrer (Buena Vista Social Club Presents)—which nabbed him a Latin Grammy for Best New Artist at the age o
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Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer
1999 studio album by Ibrahim Ferrer
| Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer | |||
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| Released | June 8, 1999 | ||
| Recorded | March 1998 | ||
| Studio | EGREM, Havana, Cuba Livingston Studios, London, UK | ||
| Genre | Canción, bolero, son cubano, guajira, guaguancó, son montuno | ||
| Length | 52:05 | ||
| Language | Spanish | ||
| Label | World Circuit / Nonesuch | ||
| Producer | Ry Cooder, Nick Gold, Juan de Marcos González | ||
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Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer is the first studio album by Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer. It was released on June 8, 1999, through World Circuit, and was one of the top ten selling Latin albums in the US in that year.
Recording
[edit]The album was recorded in March, 1998.[1]
Critical reception
[edit]AllMusic reviewer David Lavin commented: "Ferrer's album is pleasant, the kind of album you c