In 1996, a group of elderly, mostly forgotten Cuban musicians recorded an album that became a critical and commercial phenomenon worldwide. Now, the Grammy Award-winning “Buena Vista Social Club” has inspired a Broadway musical. Correspondent Martha Teichner talks with Cuban bandleader Juan de Marcos GonzĆ”lez about assembling the original players; writer Marco Ramirez and director Saheem Ali, about creating the imagined origin story of the musicians and their Havana nightclub; and journalist Judy Cantor-Navas, about how the infectious music of Cuba crosses boundaries.
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