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Compay Segundo, born Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz, was a Cuban composer, singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was born in Santiago de Cuba on November 18, 1907, and began his work period in 1922. A bass vocalist who performed in the trova genre, he was a member of Los Compadres and partnered with Rey Caney and Lorenzo Hierrezuelo. His musical career included association with the Buena Vista Social Club.
Segundo died of kidney failure from natural causes in Havana. His death is recorded as occurring on either July 13 or July 14, 2003. He was buried in Santa Ifigenia Cemetery.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Buena Vista Social Club
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Siboney, Cuba
Known for
- Compay Segundo: Live At L'olympia - Paris — Self2001
- Buena Vista Social Club — Self1999
- Las claves de Compay Segundo — Interviewee1999
- Show Palast — Self1999
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Cuba
- Active from
- 1907
- Active to
- 2003
Discography
Member of
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 318,813
- Total plays
- 3,122,382
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Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz Telles (November 18, 1907 – July 13, 2003), known professionally as "Compay Segundo", was a Cuban trova guitarist, singer and composer. Compay (meaning compadre) Segundo, so called because he was always second voice in his musical partnerships, was born in Siboney, Cuba, and moved to Santiago de Cuba at the age of nine. His first engagement was in the Municipal Band of Santiago de Cuba, directed by his teacher, Enrique Bueno. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Co
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The NLRP3 inflammasome is released as a particulate danger signal that amplifies the inflammatory response
· 2014 · cited 715x
- Microbiota as Predictor of Mortality in Allogeneic Hematopoietic-Cell Transplantation
· 2020 · cited 694x
- Control of Metastasis by NK Cells
· 2017 · cited 688x
- Use and misuse of the Kubelka-Munk function to obtain the band gap energy from diffuse reflectance measurements
· 2022 · cited 668x
- Methodological aspects about in vitro evaluation of antioxidant properties
· 2008 · cited 588x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz Telles , ( 1907-11-18 ) 18 November 1907, Siboney , Cuba
- Died
- 13 July 2003 (2003-07-13) (aged 95), Havana , Cuba
- Genres
- Trova
- Occupations
- Singer, guitarist, composer
- Instruments
- Guitar, tres , armónico
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Francisco
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Cuba
- Place of death
- Havana
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Genre
- trova
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Cropped image of Compay.jpg
- Voice type
- bass
Show 11 more facts
- Commons category
- Compay Segundo
- date of birth
- 1907-11-18
- date of death
- 2003-07-13
- cause of death
- kidney failure
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons gallery
- Compay Segundo
- name in native language
- Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz
- place of burial
- Santa Ifigenia Cemetery
- start of work period
- 1922-00-00
- partner in business or sport
- Lorenzo Hierrezuelo
- member of
- Los Compadres
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Encyclopedic overview
Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz Telles (18 November 1907 – 13 July 2003), known professionally as "Compay Segundo", was a Cuban trova guitarist, singer and composer.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Compay Segundo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.