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This is a famous photo I took...
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during the October Missile Crisis,
outside the Hotel Riviera.
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The entire Malecón was full
of antiaircraft guns and cannons.
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We were expecting a U.S. invasion.
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I took this one in 1959
in Washington.
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Fidel placed a wreath
before Abraham Lincoln.
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The photo's called
"David and Goliath."
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The little guy and the giant.
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This is Che Guevara
and Fidel playing golf.
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Who won?
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Fidel.
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Che let him win.
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Ah, the Buena Vista Social Club!
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Compay Segundo! Darling!
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We should ask these people,
the older folks from the neighborhood.
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"Where was
the Buena Vista Social Club?"
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Where are the old folks?
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This guy will know.
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We're looking for the social club.
- The Buena Vista?
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That's long gone.
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The Buena Vista was... let's see.
You go up that way.
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It's a private house now.
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- It was No. 48.
- But it's not there anymore.
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- We're looking for the old location.
- Sure, the building's still there.
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- Between 21st and 42nd.
- At 31st.
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If you go up this way,
it's right there.
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- You used to dance there?
- Yes. I was born around there.
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It's a private house now.
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You take the divided highway.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
Compay Segundo!
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Eliades Ochoa!
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It's that house
with a line painted on the door.
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It's been gone since 1944.
We've lived here since then.
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I remember the guys
who'd throw parties at the Buena Vista.
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In its day, the best bands
in Cuba played there.
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Know what I eat
when I've had too much to drink?
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Black cocoquetta soup.
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Chicken consommé.
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You take a piece of chicken neck
and fry it up.
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When it's no longer bloody,
you toss in some chopped garlic.
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I think there are still
some remains of the bar.
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Anyone who eats that
will have no aches or pains.
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You like mutton consommé?
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It clears everything out.
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♪ From Alto Cedro
I head for Marcané ♪
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♪ I get to Cueto
and head for Mayarí ♪
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♪ From Alto Cedro
I head for Marcané ♪
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♪ I get to Cueto
and head for Mayarí ♪
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♪ From Alto Cedro
I head for Marcané ♪
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♪ I get to Cueto
and head for Mayarí ♪
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♪ The love I have for you ♪
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♪ I cannot deny ♪
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♪ My mouth is watering ♪
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♪ I just can't help it ♪
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♪ When Juanica and Chan Chan ♪
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♪ Sifted sand together on the beach ♪
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♪ The way she shook the sieve ♪
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♪ Got Chan Chan all aroused ♪
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♪ Clear the dry cane leaves
from the path ♪
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♪ Because I want to sit down ♪
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♪ On that trunk over there ♪
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♪ Or I might not make it ♪
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♪ From Alto Cedro
I head for Marcané ♪
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♪ I get to Cueto
and head for Mayarí♪
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♪ From Alto Cedro
I head for Marcané ♪
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♪ I get to Cueto
and head for Mayarí♪
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♪ From Alto Cedro
I head for Marcané ♪
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♪ I get to Cueto
and head for Mayarí ♪
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Attack!
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From the front.
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♪ From Alto Cedro
I head for Marcané ♪
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♪ I get to Cueto
and head for Mayarí ♪
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It's great, so let's enjoy it!
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My son Joachim and I...
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came back down here
to Havana in March 1998.
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We'd been here before...
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about two years ago,
recording the Buena Vista Social Club.
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I've been making records
about 35 years...
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and you never know
what the public's going to go for.
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This turned out to be the one
they liked best. I like it the best.
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One of the great things about that record
turned out to be Ibrahim Ferrer.
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He'd come in off the street,
kind of like a Cuban Nat King Cole.
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You stumble onto somebody like this
maybe once in your life.
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We wanted to try recording with him...
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make a solo record,
let him be heard.
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♪ Asleep in my garden ♪
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♪ The spikenards and the roses ♪
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♪ The white lilies ♪
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♪ And my soul ♪
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♪ So very sad and sorrowful ♪
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♪ It wants to hide from the flowers ♪
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♪ Its bitter pain ♪
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♪ I don't want the flowers to know ♪
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♪ Of the torments ♪
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♪ Life brings my way ♪
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♪ If they knew how I'm suffering ♪
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♪ They too would weep for my sorrow ♪
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♪ Hush ♪
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♪ For they are sleeping ♪
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♪ The spikenards ♪
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♪ And the lilies ♪
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♪ I don't want them to know ♪
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♪ Of my sorrows ♪
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♪ For if they see me weeping ♪
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♪ They will die ♪
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♪ Hush ♪
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♪ For they are sleeping ♪
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♪ The spikenards ♪
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♪ And the lilies ♪
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♪ I don't want them to know ♪
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♪ Of my sorrows ♪
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♪ For if they see me weeping ♪
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♪ They will die ♪
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♪ For if they see me weeping ♪
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♪ They will die ♪
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♪ For if they see me weeping ♪
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♪ They will die ♪
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Omara Portuondo!
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I, Ibrahim Ferrer Planas...
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was born in a small town
in the province of Santiago de Cuba...
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called San Luis.
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I'm the son of Aurelia Ferrer...
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registered as her natural-born son.
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I say this because...
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I want everyone to hear
directly from me...
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who I am and what I am.
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At 12 years of age...
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I lost my mother.
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I'd already lost my father.
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I was left an orphan...
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my mother's only child.
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So I had to make my way in life.
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I attended school
just like my friends...
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but I had to drop out...
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because life back then...
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wasn't like it is now.
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It was harder.
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I had to find my own way in life.
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You need a hand?
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We were just taking a break.
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Rubén loves to improvise on his own,
and then I join in.
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So I started singing.
" Compadre, pick up this tune."
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♪ Two gardenias for you ♪
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♪ With them I mean to say
I love you, I adore you ♪
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♪ My love ♪
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♪ Give them your full attention ♪
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♪ They'll be your heart and mine ♪
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Ry Cooder heard it too.
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I'd sung that number casually...
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just to loosen up.
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And he recorded it.
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♪ Two gardenias for you ♪
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♪ With them I mean to say ♪
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♪ I love you ♪
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♪ I adore you ♪
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♪ My love ♪
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♪ Give them your full attention ♪
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♪ They'll be your heart and mine ♪
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♪ Two gardenias for you ♪
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♪ With all the warmth of a kiss ♪
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♪ Those kisses I gave you ♪
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♪ And that you'll never find ♪
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♪ In the arms of another love ♪
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♪ They'll live in your presence ♪
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♪ And speak to you as I do ♪
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♪ You'll even believe they're saying ♪
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♪ "I love you"♪
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♪ But if one evening at twilight ♪
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♪ My love's gardenias should die ♪
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♪ It's because they've realized ♪
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♪ That you've betrayed me ♪
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♪ For the love of another ♪
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♪ It wishes to hide ♪
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♪ Its bitter pain ♪
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♪ I don't want ♪
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Nice.
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♪ The flowers to know ♪
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♪ Of the torments ♪
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- ♪ Life brings my way ♪
- Wow.
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♪ If they knew how I'm suffering ♪
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My name is Omara Portuondo.
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I was born here in Havana...
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in the area known as Cayo Hueso.
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Two blocks that way?
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My father was
a famous baseball player.
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He was one of the first Cubans...
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to play outside this country.
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They took Cuban baseball to the U.S.
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My mother and father...
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used to relax after lunch...
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and they'd sing a few duets.
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And that's when my love
of Cuban music began.
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For example, I started singing
La Bayamesa when I was a little girl.
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My father would sing lead
and I'd sing harmony.
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And the song I recorded on the album
that won a Grammy, "Veinte Años" ‒
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I've known that one
since I was a child too.
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♪ What's it matter if I love you ♪
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♪ If you don't love me anymore ♪
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♪ A love now past
must not be brought to mind ♪
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♪ I was the love of your life ♪
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♪ Once so very long ago ♪
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♪ But now I'm part of the past ♪
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♪ And I just can't accept it ♪
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♪ If we could have ♪
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♪ Everything we wanted ♪
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♪ You'd still love me the same ♪
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♪ As 20 years ago ♪
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♪ With such sadness we watch ♪
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♪ As love fades away ♪
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♪ And a part of our soul
is so heartlessly torn away ♪
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♪ And a part of our soul ♪
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♪ Is so heartlessly torn away ♪
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♪ Here on the beach
how María enjoys herself ♪
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♪ Here on the beach, María
how you excite me ♪
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♪ Here on the beach
how María enjoys herself ♪
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♪ Here on the beach, María
how you excite me ♪
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I was born in 1907.
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On the coast, by the sea...
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in Siboney.
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I lived there with my father.
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He drove trains
for the manganese mines.
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I lived in Siboney
until I was about nine,
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until my grandmother died.
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Then my brothers and I moved
to Santiago de Cuba.
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But I couldn't leave Siboney
until my grandmother died.
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She told me that.
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"Grandson, until I die,
you cannot leave my side."
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I used to light her cigars.
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I was five years old.
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She'd say, "Light me a cigar."
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And I would,
from the age of five on.
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I'd hand it to Grandma,
and she'd smoke it.
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So you might say...
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I've been smoking for 85 years.
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I have to work hard,
because Ry Cooder's here.
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♪ In the trunk of a tree
a young girl ♪
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♪ Joyfully carved her name ♪
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♪ And the tree,
moved to its very soul ♪
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♪ Sent a flower floating down ♪
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♪ To the young girl ♪
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♪ I am that tree ♪
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♪ So moved and so sad ♪
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♪ And you're the young girl ♪
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♪ Who cut into my flesh ♪
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♪ I'll always treasure ♪
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♪ Your dear name ♪
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♪ But tell me ♪
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♪ What have you done
with my poor flower? ♪
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I learned that when I was this big.
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That's it.
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Music is so beautiful!
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My name is
Eliades Ochoa Bustamante.
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I was born in Santiago de Cuba
on June 22, 1946.
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My mother, Jacoba Bustamante,
played the tres.
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So did my father.
We were a musical family.
258
00:28:59,531 --> 00:29:02,242
I was born in the countryside...
259
00:29:02,409 --> 00:29:04,744
so of course I'd hear music...
260
00:29:04,911 --> 00:29:08,456
from the moment
I woke up in the morning.
261
00:29:08,665 --> 00:29:11,418
Besides having music in my blood...
262
00:29:11,626 --> 00:29:15,713
I heard music night and day.
263
00:29:16,339 --> 00:29:21,761
In 1958, when I was
no bigger than a guitar...
264
00:29:21,928 --> 00:29:27,392
I began playing all around Santiago.
265
00:29:27,684 --> 00:29:33,648
In the red light district
I'd play and pass the hat:
266
00:29:33,857 --> 00:29:36,067
"Support Cuban musicians."
267
00:29:36,234 --> 00:29:39,279
That's how I made some money...
268
00:29:39,446 --> 00:29:45,368
which I took home
to help out my parents.
269
00:30:17,609 --> 00:30:23,573
♪ Along the road by my house
a merry cart driver went by ♪
270
00:30:31,206 --> 00:30:34,209
♪ His songs came from the heart ♪
271
00:30:34,501 --> 00:30:37,086
♪ In his jolly way he sang ♪
272
00:30:42,133 --> 00:30:45,428
♪ "I'm going to the ferry ♪
273
00:30:45,595 --> 00:30:48,389
♪ To unload my cart ♪
274
00:30:53,186 --> 00:30:58,816
♪ And finish another day
of my back-breaking work" ♪
275
00:30:58,983 --> 00:31:04,364
♪ We ride up into the hills ♪
276
00:31:12,539 --> 00:31:14,874
Hey, compay!
277
00:31:18,378 --> 00:31:21,339
♪ I work without rest ♪
278
00:31:21,714 --> 00:31:24,050
♪ So that I can get married ♪
279
00:31:24,217 --> 00:31:26,970
♪ If I can manage that ♪
280
00:31:27,387 --> 00:31:29,931
♪ I'll be a lucky country lad ♪
281
00:31:32,392 --> 00:31:36,104
My days of passing the hat are over.
282
00:31:37,730 --> 00:31:41,276
You never forget it,
but it's in the past now.
283
00:31:46,990 --> 00:31:50,118
♪ I'm a country lad and cart driver ♪
284
00:31:50,285 --> 00:31:53,621
♪And I live well on the land ♪
285
00:31:58,251 --> 00:32:01,588
♪ The countryside
is the Garden of Eden ♪
286
00:32:01,754 --> 00:32:03,965
♪ The loveliest in the world ♪
287
00:32:04,173 --> 00:32:06,759
♪ We ride up into the hills ♪
288
00:32:06,926 --> 00:32:09,512
♪ We ride up into the hills ♪
289
00:32:09,679 --> 00:32:12,974
♪ We ride up into the hills ♪
290
00:32:13,141 --> 00:32:16,227
♪ We ride up into the hills ♪
291
00:32:16,394 --> 00:32:19,731
♪ Cultivate the hills and the plains ♪
292
00:32:19,897 --> 00:32:22,775
♪And reap the fruits of your toil ♪
293
00:32:45,965 --> 00:32:47,800
Hey, how are you?
294
00:32:48,301 --> 00:32:52,138
We've been waiting ages.
You're late.
295
00:32:53,097 --> 00:32:56,392
I thought maybe the cops got you.
296
00:32:56,768 --> 00:32:58,394
Come on up.
297
00:33:06,152 --> 00:33:07,820
Come in.
298
00:33:14,702 --> 00:33:16,996
Make yourselves at home.
299
00:33:19,666 --> 00:33:22,669
At one time, in Santiago de Cuba...
300
00:33:22,835 --> 00:33:25,088
my grandfather was...
301
00:33:25,254 --> 00:33:28,883
president of a French society.
302
00:33:29,634 --> 00:33:32,178
It was called "El Cucuyé."
303
00:33:33,429 --> 00:33:39,352
A delegation of Africans...
304
00:33:40,144 --> 00:33:42,230
came to visit him there...
305
00:33:42,397 --> 00:33:46,359
and my mother really liked
one of the African women.
306
00:33:47,402 --> 00:33:50,655
And when that woman left...
307
00:33:50,822 --> 00:33:53,032
she gave my mother this staff.
308
00:33:53,199 --> 00:33:55,952
My mother was a firm believer
in this Lazarus...
309
00:33:56,119 --> 00:33:59,372
which I now have.
310
00:33:59,539 --> 00:34:01,916
I firmly believe in my Lazarus too.
311
00:34:02,083 --> 00:34:04,544
They call him "the beggar."
312
00:34:05,420 --> 00:34:07,755
He's a powerful figure.
313
00:34:07,922 --> 00:34:12,510
He opens up paths...
314
00:34:12,677 --> 00:34:16,431
and helps the destitute, you might say.
315
00:34:17,390 --> 00:34:20,226
The other one's the same...
316
00:34:20,518 --> 00:34:23,354
but this Lazarus is the one
I carry inside...
317
00:34:23,521 --> 00:34:25,690
the one who asks for alms.
318
00:34:27,191 --> 00:34:30,528
I place flowers before him.
319
00:34:30,820 --> 00:34:34,490
Sometimes I light a candle to him.
320
00:34:34,949 --> 00:34:36,951
I give him honey.
321
00:34:39,245 --> 00:34:43,666
See?
I pour honey in here for him.
322
00:34:44,792 --> 00:34:48,296
And lots of perfume.
323
00:34:51,215 --> 00:34:52,925
Lots of perfume.
324
00:34:53,217 --> 00:34:56,471
Every time I go out I spray him...
325
00:34:56,846 --> 00:34:59,015
and myself too.
326
00:35:07,607 --> 00:35:09,609
His little shot of rum.
327
00:35:09,776 --> 00:35:12,069
I like it...
328
00:35:12,695 --> 00:35:17,074
so I just assume if we like it,
he must like it too.
329
00:35:17,450 --> 00:35:20,328
So he gets his little shot of rum.
330
00:35:22,997 --> 00:35:25,958
Sometimes my wife
makes him a meringue.
331
00:35:26,125 --> 00:35:27,835
You know what that is?
332
00:35:28,002 --> 00:35:31,088
She makes it,
and we place it there for him.
333
00:35:31,255 --> 00:35:33,591
We dedicate it to him.
334
00:35:33,966 --> 00:35:39,013
So that's how he gets
all these things.
335
00:35:40,848 --> 00:35:44,977
We Cubans can be thankful...
336
00:35:45,353 --> 00:35:50,441
to, I don't know, the man up there
that we are the way we are.
337
00:35:50,650 --> 00:35:55,112
If we cared about possessions,
we'd have vanished long ago.
338
00:35:55,488 --> 00:35:59,158
But we Cubans are unique.
339
00:36:00,201 --> 00:36:04,038
We're a small country...
340
00:36:04,247 --> 00:36:06,582
but we're strong.
341
00:36:07,041 --> 00:36:10,378
We've learned how to hold on...
342
00:36:10,878 --> 00:36:13,881
through good times and bad.
343
00:36:28,437 --> 00:36:34,485
♪ Cienfuegos has
its guaguancó sound ♪
344
00:36:41,409 --> 00:36:44,912
♪ Today I'm filled with emotion ♪
345
00:36:45,371 --> 00:36:48,666
♪ I will sing to my land ♪
346
00:36:53,462 --> 00:36:56,841
♪ To that famous region ♪
347
00:36:57,508 --> 00:37:01,345
♪ Known as the Pearl of the South ♪
348
00:37:09,770 --> 00:37:12,899
♪ Its women are the finest ♪
349
00:37:13,900 --> 00:37:17,612
♪ Radiant as the stars ♪
350
00:37:21,908 --> 00:37:25,411
♪And for the elegant way they walk ♪
351
00:37:25,912 --> 00:37:29,123
♪ They're admired throughout the land ♪
352
00:37:30,499 --> 00:37:34,253
♪ Cienfuegos, I carry you ♪
353
00:37:34,962 --> 00:37:38,257
♪ Deep within my heart ♪
354
00:37:42,053 --> 00:37:44,931
♪ That's why with special pride ♪
355
00:37:45,097 --> 00:37:48,893
♪ I sing you this inspiration ♪
356
00:37:53,397 --> 00:37:57,026
♪ So you see, my brother ♪
357
00:37:57,443 --> 00:38:01,197
♪ Cienfuegos has
its guaguancó sound ♪
358
00:39:10,057 --> 00:39:12,810
That's the ending!
359
00:39:16,230 --> 00:39:19,692
That's how Juan de Marcos wanted it.
360
00:39:23,362 --> 00:39:26,115
From the first note.
That's the one we need.
361
00:39:26,282 --> 00:39:28,367
Thank you, thank you.
Beautiful.
362
00:39:31,871 --> 00:39:34,040
Couldn't live through another one,
I know that.
363
00:39:56,854 --> 00:40:02,193
♪ Cienfuegos has
its guaguancó sound ♪
364
00:40:09,658 --> 00:40:13,537
♪ Today I'm filled with emotion ♪
365
00:40:13,704 --> 00:40:18,209
♪ I will sing to my land ♪
366
00:40:21,879 --> 00:40:25,716
♪ To that famous region ♪
367
00:40:25,883 --> 00:40:29,970
♪ Known as the Pearl of the South ♪
368
00:40:38,062 --> 00:40:42,024
♪ Its women are the finest ♪
369
00:40:42,191 --> 00:40:46,153
♪ Radiant as the stars ♪
370
00:40:50,574 --> 00:40:53,285
♪And for the elegant way they walk ♪
371
00:40:54,411 --> 00:40:58,791
♪ They're admired throughout the land ♪
372
00:40:58,958 --> 00:41:02,461
♪ Cienfuegos, I carry you ♪
373
00:41:03,379 --> 00:41:06,757
♪ Deep within my heart ♪
374
00:41:10,386 --> 00:41:13,556
♪ That's why with special pride ♪
375
00:42:21,707 --> 00:42:25,127
My name is
Rubén González y Fontanills.
376
00:42:25,836 --> 00:42:30,382
I was born
in the city of Santa Clara...
377
00:42:31,383 --> 00:42:33,844
in 1919.
378
00:42:34,011 --> 00:42:39,934
At the age of seven
I began studying piano.
379
00:42:40,893 --> 00:42:43,395
My family had bought a piano.
380
00:42:43,938 --> 00:42:46,690
It was a very good one,
a John Stowers.
381
00:42:48,234 --> 00:42:50,236
It was a player piano too.
382
00:42:50,402 --> 00:42:52,529
It sounded wonderful.
383
00:42:52,863 --> 00:42:56,867
When I saw that instrument,
I went crazy.
384
00:42:57,451 --> 00:43:00,496
I really liked it.
385
00:43:00,663 --> 00:43:03,874
I'd do all kinds of things on it.
386
00:43:04,041 --> 00:43:06,210
So I started studying.
387
00:43:06,377 --> 00:43:09,421
When my mother saw
I had the potential...
388
00:43:09,588 --> 00:43:11,882
to be a great piano player...
389
00:43:12,049 --> 00:43:15,594
she arranged lessons for me...
390
00:43:15,761 --> 00:43:17,846
with a private teacher...
391
00:43:18,430 --> 00:43:20,557
from Cienfuegos.
392
00:43:20,891 --> 00:43:23,894
So I studied with her for one year...
393
00:43:24,687 --> 00:43:28,107
then two, three, four...
394
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:30,526
up to eight years.
395
00:43:30,818 --> 00:43:32,778
That's when she told me...
396
00:43:32,945 --> 00:43:36,282
"Rubén, you're going
to be a good pianist.
397
00:43:36,448 --> 00:43:39,827
You have great skill
with your hands."
398
00:47:55,415 --> 00:47:58,460
I was forgotten.
I just stayed home.
399
00:47:58,627 --> 00:48:00,420
But I wasn't going to starve.
400
00:48:00,587 --> 00:48:03,715
I shined shoes,
I collected trash.
401
00:48:04,633 --> 00:48:09,221
I sold coal.
I had a family to support.
402
00:48:09,888 --> 00:48:12,224
I'm not ashamed to say that.
403
00:48:14,726 --> 00:48:18,397
We moved
from Santa Clara to Havana.
404
00:48:18,564 --> 00:48:24,027
But in the capital
I started feeling insecure.
405
00:48:24,194 --> 00:48:30,200
I thought, "There are lots
of piano players in Havana!"
406
00:48:30,576 --> 00:48:34,413
So I began to study...
407
00:48:34,913 --> 00:48:37,708
everything I could.
408
00:48:38,083 --> 00:48:43,922
It turned out that next door
there was a man...
409
00:48:44,506 --> 00:48:48,260
who later came
to be known as Arsenio.
410
00:48:48,427 --> 00:48:50,971
He formed a famous band.
411
00:48:51,138 --> 00:48:53,682
He heard me play.
412
00:48:53,849 --> 00:48:57,144
But Arsenio was blind.
413
00:48:57,436 --> 00:48:59,563
He wasn't born that way.
414
00:48:59,730 --> 00:49:03,358
He'd lost his eyesight
in an accident.
415
00:49:03,609 --> 00:49:06,069
Anyway,
one day he said to me...
416
00:49:06,236 --> 00:49:09,781
"Would you like to play
in my group?"
417
00:49:09,948 --> 00:49:12,451
I said, "Sure."
418
00:49:12,826 --> 00:49:15,954
His pianist had left...
419
00:49:16,204 --> 00:49:18,290
and gone to Europe.
420
00:49:18,790 --> 00:49:23,086
So I took his place and played
with Arsenio for four years...
421
00:49:23,253 --> 00:49:26,673
and it was
a successful time for me.
422
00:49:47,986 --> 00:49:51,657
People talked about how
Arsenio would get argumentative...
423
00:49:51,823 --> 00:49:54,117
and they'd argue back...
424
00:49:54,826 --> 00:49:58,205
and he'd get really angry.
425
00:49:58,497 --> 00:50:00,666
You know what he'd do?
426
00:50:01,041 --> 00:50:03,502
He'd stand like this...
427
00:50:03,669 --> 00:50:08,340
and then lunge toward any voice
he heard to grab that person.
428
00:50:08,507 --> 00:50:10,592
But since he was blind...
429
00:50:10,759 --> 00:50:13,387
everyone would just scatter.
430
00:50:13,929 --> 00:50:18,183
We'd tell each other, "Keep quiet
so he won't know I'm here!"
431
00:50:18,350 --> 00:50:21,186
And he'd come at you like this.
432
00:50:21,353 --> 00:50:23,897
He'd get really mad...
433
00:50:24,064 --> 00:50:28,860
when people
didn't show him respect.
434
00:50:29,236 --> 00:50:34,032
He was a big, strong, fat guy...
435
00:50:34,700 --> 00:50:36,702
and taller than everyone else.
436
00:50:36,868 --> 00:50:38,704
I'd laugh like crazy.
437
00:50:38,870 --> 00:50:41,873
I swear
I'm not gonna smoke anymore.
438
00:50:42,916 --> 00:50:44,376
Honest.
439
00:50:44,543 --> 00:50:46,670
Well, just a bit.
440
00:50:47,754 --> 00:50:49,381
Just a little.
441
00:50:49,548 --> 00:50:53,176
And no more drinking either.
442
00:50:53,343 --> 00:50:55,053
I used to drink.
443
00:50:55,429 --> 00:50:59,099
Man, did I ever drink!
444
00:51:00,934 --> 00:51:05,397
But I've got my bodyguard here.
445
00:51:06,314 --> 00:51:08,233
She won't let me.
446
00:51:12,946 --> 00:51:17,284
This is Arsenio Rodríguez.
It's the best picture of him.
447
00:51:26,126 --> 00:51:28,920
May 24, 1946.
448
00:51:29,087 --> 00:51:33,759
The band toured a lot in Mexico...
449
00:51:33,925 --> 00:51:36,052
and also in Venezuela.
450
00:51:36,219 --> 00:51:40,098
This guy died a while back.
Most of them are gone.
451
00:51:40,265 --> 00:51:42,225
This guy's still alive.
452
00:51:42,392 --> 00:51:44,561
He's almost 100 now.
453
00:51:45,771 --> 00:51:48,565
Pascualito is his name.
He plays the timbal.
454
00:51:50,025 --> 00:51:52,611
Yes, he died in Spain.
455
00:51:57,324 --> 00:51:58,867
Well...
456
00:52:00,786 --> 00:52:03,163
I'm asking who wrote
"Como Fue"...
457
00:52:03,330 --> 00:52:06,875
and it's this guy Ernesto Duarte,
but he died in Spain.
458
00:52:07,042 --> 00:52:09,002
You always have to ask...
459
00:52:09,169 --> 00:52:11,963
"Who wrote it,
and are they still living?"
460
00:52:12,130 --> 00:52:15,133
In case they may be here
or they come down, you know?
461
00:52:15,300 --> 00:52:18,345
Get 'em to come down.
More people have died...
462
00:52:18,512 --> 00:52:20,680
but so many are left...
463
00:52:20,847 --> 00:52:24,142
so we always want to try
to find those people.
464
00:52:24,309 --> 00:52:27,270
They might be down the street.
They might be here. Who knows?
465
00:52:27,437 --> 00:52:30,607
Might be around the corner.
You never know.
466
00:52:30,774 --> 00:52:34,903
So it's 1998.
We have to do the best we can.
467
00:52:35,070 --> 00:52:38,114
So we have Ibrahim in 1998.
We're very lucky.
468
00:52:45,372 --> 00:52:48,250
- Thank you.
- Very, very lucky.
469
00:52:48,416 --> 00:52:52,838
I just don't want to die ‒
at least not right now.
470
00:52:53,004 --> 00:52:56,716
The man up there
and my wife over there...
471
00:52:56,883 --> 00:53:01,805
ought to grant me
a bit more time to enjoy all this.
472
00:53:04,057 --> 00:53:08,186
Because sometimes
you don't get time.
473
00:53:09,604 --> 00:53:11,273
That's right.
474
00:53:11,439 --> 00:53:14,693
As long as
I have blood in my veins...
475
00:53:14,860 --> 00:53:16,862
I'm going to love women.
476
00:53:17,279 --> 00:53:19,364
Because in life...
477
00:53:19,531 --> 00:53:23,451
women, flowers, and romance...
478
00:53:23,618 --> 00:53:25,245
are all so lovely.
479
00:53:25,412 --> 00:53:29,374
One night of romance is priceless!
480
00:53:29,708 --> 00:53:33,461
It's priceless.
And I haven't forgotten how yet.
481
00:53:33,628 --> 00:53:35,714
I'm 90 years old...
482
00:53:35,881 --> 00:53:38,049
and I have five children.
483
00:53:38,216 --> 00:53:41,887
You met Salvador and Basilio.
484
00:53:42,053 --> 00:53:44,014
Salvador is the youngest.
485
00:53:44,180 --> 00:53:46,057
I have five...
486
00:53:46,224 --> 00:53:49,728
but I'm working on the sixth.
487
00:53:52,856 --> 00:53:54,816
I want one more.
488
00:54:01,573 --> 00:54:03,033
Well...
489
00:54:03,909 --> 00:54:05,869
see you some other time.
490
00:54:25,180 --> 00:54:28,224
One afternoon, out of the blue...
491
00:54:29,517 --> 00:54:33,563
Juan de Marcos
knocked at my door.
492
00:54:34,064 --> 00:54:37,025
I was polishing some shoes.
493
00:54:37,192 --> 00:54:40,278
He said, "What are you doing?"
494
00:54:40,445 --> 00:54:43,573
I said, "Just shining my shoes."
495
00:54:43,740 --> 00:54:47,619
"I've been looking for you.
Come with me."
496
00:54:47,786 --> 00:54:51,122
"No, I don't want to sing anymore, "
I said.
497
00:54:51,289 --> 00:54:54,626
But he said,
"Man, I need your voice."
498
00:54:54,793 --> 00:54:59,589
So I asked him,
"When? Tomorrow?"
499
00:54:59,923 --> 00:55:02,842
"No, right now."
"At least let me shower."
500
00:55:03,009 --> 00:55:05,470
"No, right now."
501
00:55:05,637 --> 00:55:08,640
He barely gave me time
to wash my face...
502
00:55:08,807 --> 00:55:12,769
and wipe off a little shoe polish.
503
00:55:12,936 --> 00:55:17,315
So we came here
to the EGREM studios...
504
00:55:17,482 --> 00:55:21,361
where I found Eliades Ochoa.
505
00:55:22,153 --> 00:55:24,531
He was here...
506
00:55:24,864 --> 00:55:28,827
with Compay Segundo and the rest.
507
00:55:29,327 --> 00:55:31,955
Rubén was at the piano.
508
00:55:32,539 --> 00:55:34,457
When Rubén saw me...
509
00:55:34,624 --> 00:55:37,002
he began playing...
510
00:55:40,588 --> 00:55:44,801
...a number I'd made
very popular here in Cuba.
511
00:55:44,968 --> 00:55:49,222
It's called "Candela,"
by Faustino Oramas, "El Guayabero."
512
00:55:49,597 --> 00:55:53,685
♪ There goes a dancing rat
having a great old time ♪
513
00:55:53,852 --> 00:55:57,439
♪ While a mouse drums out a rhythm
to brighten up the day ♪
514
00:55:57,605 --> 00:56:01,067
♪ A cat comes along too
so elegant and affable ♪
515
00:56:01,234 --> 00:56:04,946
♪ "Good evening, friend"
he says to the drummer ♪
516
00:56:05,405 --> 00:56:07,866
So I started singing the number.
517
00:56:08,033 --> 00:56:13,121
And Ry was in the booth.
It seems he had his eye on me.
518
00:56:15,206 --> 00:56:17,125
He heard me...
519
00:56:17,292 --> 00:56:20,837
and decided to record the song.
520
00:56:21,921 --> 00:56:25,842
I thought, "Okay, no problem."
So we recorded it.
521
00:56:26,217 --> 00:56:29,054
That's when I got back
to doing my thing.
522
00:56:32,307 --> 00:56:36,770
♪ Fire, fire! I'm burning up! ♪
523
00:56:42,108 --> 00:56:47,238
♪ Faustino Oramas and friends,
put this fire out for me! ♪
524
00:56:50,408 --> 00:56:56,915
♪ Just dial seven zeros
and the firemen will be right here ♪
525
00:58:00,562 --> 00:58:03,398
My name is Orlando López,
"Cachaíto."
526
00:58:03,606 --> 00:58:08,528
I'd like to tell you a bit
about how I became a musician.
527
00:58:08,820 --> 00:58:11,990
I started playing when I was nine.
528
00:58:12,157 --> 00:58:16,911
At 11 years old, I joined an orchestra
led by my aunt, Coralia López.
529
00:58:17,078 --> 00:58:22,000
My uncle and my great-grandfather
were both bassists.
530
00:58:22,167 --> 00:58:25,170
I was going to study violin...
531
00:58:25,336 --> 00:58:29,007
but my grandfather said,
"No, it has to be bass."
532
00:58:29,465 --> 00:58:31,509
It was one of those things.
533
00:58:31,676 --> 00:58:34,220
I was a little afraid of the bass...
534
00:58:34,387 --> 00:58:38,850
but it just took
getting familiar with it.
535
00:58:40,143 --> 00:58:46,191
My way of playing
is to get very focused.
536
00:58:47,108 --> 00:58:49,194
I like music so much.
537
00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:54,365
I've studied classical music,
every genre.
538
00:58:54,699 --> 00:58:59,204
And I feel... I don't know.
539
00:58:59,996 --> 00:59:03,875
For me playing music
is like a game.
540
00:59:04,626 --> 00:59:07,170
I played in lots of orchestras
back then...
541
00:59:07,420 --> 00:59:12,717
and that's how I met Rubén.
542
00:59:13,134 --> 00:59:16,804
I'd played with a lot of pianists,
but never Rubén.
543
00:59:16,971 --> 00:59:20,433
Now it turns out
we make a great pair.
544
00:59:21,893 --> 00:59:25,355
My great strength
is that I have a good ear.
545
00:59:25,647 --> 00:59:28,691
I can also sight-read very quickly.
546
00:59:29,067 --> 00:59:34,280
So before he plays a note,
I already have that note in mind.
547
01:00:53,151 --> 01:00:55,236
Chanchullo!
548
01:01:00,950 --> 01:01:03,995
♪ Chanchullo! Let's dance! ♪
549
01:01:04,454 --> 01:01:07,457
♪ Chanchullo!
Let's have a good time! ♪
550
01:01:07,623 --> 01:01:11,002
♪ Chanchullo! Let's dance! ♪
551
01:01:11,169 --> 01:01:13,671
♪ Chanchullo!
Let's have a good time! ♪
552
01:01:13,838 --> 01:01:15,548
Amadito Valdés!
553
01:01:18,843 --> 01:01:20,845
He's a wild man!
554
01:02:08,017 --> 01:02:09,560
Go!
555
01:02:27,036 --> 01:02:28,746
Chanchullo!
556
01:02:35,420 --> 01:02:39,507
My name's Amadito Valdés.
I'm a percussionist.
557
01:02:40,425 --> 01:02:44,470
I use my father's name,
since he was my main motivation...
558
01:02:45,138 --> 01:02:47,557
in going down this path.
559
01:02:47,723 --> 01:02:49,934
In the field of percussion...
560
01:02:50,101 --> 01:02:53,146
the timbal
is a very limited instrument.
561
01:02:53,729 --> 01:03:00,319
So anyone who plays it
must be aware of that...
562
01:03:00,611 --> 01:03:03,781
and really use their imagination...
563
01:03:03,948 --> 01:03:07,535
with this instrument
that's so limited...
564
01:03:07,702 --> 01:03:11,372
in its physical design,
you might say.
565
01:03:11,539 --> 01:03:13,791
It's a very modest instrument...
566
01:03:13,958 --> 01:03:18,004
but one that lends a lovely color...
567
01:03:18,671 --> 01:03:20,673
to popular dance music.
568
01:03:49,327 --> 01:03:51,871
My name is
Manuel Mirabal Vázquez...
569
01:03:52,038 --> 01:03:54,373
better known as "El Guajiro."
570
01:03:54,540 --> 01:03:56,834
I began playing at age 18...
571
01:03:57,001 --> 01:04:00,838
so I've been playing trumpet
for 47years.
572
01:04:01,005 --> 01:04:03,549
It's been quite an experience
playing with all these guys.
573
01:04:03,716 --> 01:04:05,801
If it hadn't been for Buena Vista ‒
574
01:04:05,968 --> 01:04:09,222
All these folks
were basically forgotten.
575
01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:13,017
If it weren't for Buena Vista,
no one would remember Ibrahim...
576
01:04:13,184 --> 01:04:16,020
or Rubén, or Compay Segundo.
577
01:04:16,187 --> 01:04:20,858
To see Compay at 90
playing the tres so well...
578
01:04:21,025 --> 01:04:23,486
and Rubén
playing the piano so well ‒
579
01:04:23,653 --> 01:04:27,198
I think that's a key to the success...
580
01:04:27,365 --> 01:04:31,536
of these recordings
by these groups.
581
01:04:35,998 --> 01:04:40,169
♪ Fire, fire! I'm burning up! ♪
582
01:05:04,485 --> 01:05:08,864
♪ Fire, fire! I'm burning up! ♪
583
01:05:09,031 --> 01:05:10,575
Barbarito!
584
01:05:38,853 --> 01:05:41,439
My name is
Bárbaro Alberto Torres Delgado.
585
01:05:41,606 --> 01:05:45,443
In musical circles I'm known
as "Barbarito Torres."
586
01:05:51,073 --> 01:05:54,118
I've played the music
of the Cuban countryside...
587
01:05:54,285 --> 01:05:56,704
since I was ten years old.
588
01:05:57,246 --> 01:06:01,125
I play the lute,
which is Arabic in origin.
589
01:06:02,293 --> 01:06:04,795
The Moors took it to Spain...
590
01:06:04,962 --> 01:06:07,423
where it underwent
its first metamorphosis.
591
01:06:07,590 --> 01:06:10,551
There they made a lute
with a longer neck...
592
01:06:10,718 --> 01:06:13,971
a little larger
than the one used here.
593
01:06:14,138 --> 01:06:17,433
Medieval troubadours
brought it to Cuba...
594
01:06:17,600 --> 01:06:20,853
where it underwent
its second metamorphosis.
595
01:06:21,020 --> 01:06:25,941
That resulted in the Cuban lute,
the one I play.
596
01:07:04,271 --> 01:07:07,983
♪ Tula's bedroom
has gone up in flames ♪
597
01:07:08,150 --> 01:07:12,697
♪ She fell asleep
and didn't put out the candle ♪
598
01:07:13,030 --> 01:07:14,990
♪ Get the firemen here quick ♪
599
01:07:15,449 --> 01:07:17,785
♪ And bring lots of hoses ♪
600
01:07:17,952 --> 01:07:22,707
♪ Tula's bedroom
has gone up in flames ♪
601
01:07:22,873 --> 01:07:26,961
♪ Tula's bedroom
has gone up in flames ♪
602
01:07:27,128 --> 01:07:32,383
♪ She fell asleep
and didn't put out the candle ♪
603
01:07:42,560 --> 01:07:47,064
♪ Tula's bedroom
has gone up in flames ♪
604
01:07:47,231 --> 01:07:51,694
♪ She fell asleep
and didn't put out the candle ♪
605
01:07:51,861 --> 01:07:56,407
♪ Tell Compay to hurry
and bring his hose ♪
606
01:07:56,907 --> 01:08:01,746
♪ Tula's bedroom
has gone up in flames ♪
607
01:08:01,912 --> 01:08:06,083
♪ Tula's bedroom
has gone up in flames ♪
608
01:08:06,250 --> 01:08:10,504
♪ She fell asleep
and didn't put out the candle ♪
609
01:08:20,639 --> 01:08:25,436
♪ Tula's bedroom
has gone up in flames ♪
610
01:08:25,603 --> 01:08:30,065
♪ She fell asleep
and didn't put out the candle ♪
611
01:08:40,117 --> 01:08:44,789
♪ Tula's bedroom
has gone up in flames ♪
612
01:08:44,955 --> 01:08:49,043
♪ She fell asleep
and didn't put out the candle ♪
613
01:08:49,210 --> 01:08:53,631
Ladies and gentlemen, from
Matanzas, Cuba: Barbarito Torres.
614
01:08:54,465 --> 01:08:56,884
Barbarito's on the loose!
615
01:08:58,552 --> 01:09:00,971
He's crazy!
616
01:09:01,138 --> 01:09:02,932
Lock him away!
617
01:09:45,599 --> 01:09:49,979
♪ Tula's bedroom
has gone up in flames ♪
618
01:09:50,145 --> 01:09:54,316
♪ She fell asleep
and didn't put out the candle ♪
619
01:09:54,483 --> 01:09:56,819
♪ Fire, fire! ♪
620
01:09:56,986 --> 01:09:59,446
♪ I'm burning up! ♪
621
01:09:59,613 --> 01:10:04,076
♪ Tula's bedroom
has gone up in flames ♪
622
01:10:04,243 --> 01:10:08,539
♪ Tula's bedroom
has gone up in flames ♪
623
01:10:08,706 --> 01:10:11,375
♪ She fell asleep ♪
624
01:10:16,839 --> 01:10:21,010
♪ And didn't put out ♪
625
01:10:26,932 --> 01:10:33,939
♪ The candle ♪
626
01:10:44,700 --> 01:10:46,869
I'm Pío Leyva...
627
01:10:47,620 --> 01:10:49,872
"the Cuban highlander."
628
01:10:51,790 --> 01:10:54,752
I'm Manuel Licea, "Puntillita."
629
01:11:01,508 --> 01:11:03,594
I'll trounce you good!
630
01:11:04,720 --> 01:11:06,221
A blank!
631
01:11:08,933 --> 01:11:10,517
I win!
632
01:11:10,976 --> 01:11:13,145
I'm the greatest!
633
01:11:13,771 --> 01:11:18,484
I tell you,
you can't beat me, Puntillita.
634
01:11:19,193 --> 01:11:21,487
At dominoes, I'm number one.
635
01:11:22,112 --> 01:11:26,533
You may be the best singer,
but at dominoes, I'm the best.
636
01:11:27,493 --> 01:11:31,121
- Shall we go join them?
- Wait till they call us.
637
01:11:31,288 --> 01:11:33,707
Puntillita! Pío! Come on!
638
01:11:33,874 --> 01:11:35,626
Jeez!
639
01:11:35,793 --> 01:11:39,755
Just when I'm thrashing this guy,
I have to go to the studio!
640
01:11:39,922 --> 01:11:44,593
- It's 3-2.
- We'll continue this later.
641
01:11:45,469 --> 01:11:48,514
Let's see how the recording's going.
642
01:11:50,474 --> 01:11:53,644
- You can't play with me.
- Give me a chance!
643
01:11:53,811 --> 01:11:57,398
- What chance!
- Don't get ugly about it.
644
01:11:59,108 --> 01:12:01,819
I'm particularly happy...
645
01:12:01,986 --> 01:12:07,491
to have been involved
in coordinating this project.
646
01:12:07,658 --> 01:12:12,329
It's brought together
all the great names in Cuban music...
647
01:12:12,496 --> 01:12:15,416
who sadly had been
practically forgotten here.
648
01:12:15,582 --> 01:12:19,420
People like Rubén González,
whom I consider...
649
01:12:19,586 --> 01:12:23,424
one of the three greatest
son piano players of all time.
650
01:12:23,590 --> 01:12:27,928
Ibrahim Ferrer, one of the greatest
Cuban singers ever...
651
01:12:28,095 --> 01:12:33,767
who had sadly also been
forgotten for over ten years.
652
01:12:34,351 --> 01:12:37,521
And other people,
like Puntillita, Pío Leyva...
653
01:12:37,688 --> 01:12:39,732
Compay Segundo, Eliades Ochoa.
654
01:12:40,691 --> 01:12:44,445
As an artistic undertaking...
655
01:12:44,611 --> 01:12:47,364
this album will have
an enormous impact on Cuban music.
656
01:12:47,531 --> 01:12:50,117
One, two, one, two, three.
657
01:12:50,534 --> 01:12:54,246
♪ The dancers are coming ♪
658
01:12:55,039 --> 01:13:01,045
♪ And the roads are jammed ♪
659
01:13:25,569 --> 01:13:28,739
Perfect. Perfecto. Bueno.
660
01:13:31,116 --> 01:13:33,410
Barbarito!
661
01:13:45,589 --> 01:13:48,175
Recording, please.
662
01:13:51,762 --> 01:13:58,602
♪ There's a party
at the cabin of Don Ramón ♪
663
01:13:59,603 --> 01:14:06,985
♪ There's a party
at the cabin of Don Ramón ♪
664
01:14:07,152 --> 01:14:10,489
♪ The pig is on the spit ♪
665
01:14:10,989 --> 01:14:14,076
♪ The locals are on their way ♪
666
01:14:14,827 --> 01:14:18,330
♪ They're gonna bring the house down ♪
667
01:14:18,789 --> 01:14:21,750
♪ For Don Ramón's birthday ♪
668
01:14:22,376 --> 01:14:25,587
♪ The dancers are coming ♪
669
01:14:26,338 --> 01:14:29,925
♪ And the roads are jammed ♪
670
01:14:30,092 --> 01:14:33,971
♪ The dancers are coming ♪
671
01:14:34,138 --> 01:14:37,850
♪ And the roads are jammed ♪
672
01:14:38,016 --> 01:14:41,728
♪ The bongos
the tiple, and the güiro ♪
673
01:14:41,895 --> 01:14:44,815
♪ All play nonstop ♪
674
01:14:45,816 --> 01:14:49,403
♪ The bongos
the tiple, and the güiro ♪
675
01:14:49,570 --> 01:14:52,823
♪ All play nonstop ♪
676
01:14:53,407 --> 01:14:57,202
♪ Because that's how
these country folk are ♪
677
01:14:57,369 --> 01:15:00,706
♪ They have no particular time
to call it a day ♪
678
01:15:01,165 --> 01:15:04,585
♪ It's been a custom
in the countryside ♪
679
01:15:05,002 --> 01:15:08,255
♪ Since colonial times ♪
680
01:15:08,422 --> 01:15:12,426
♪ The dancers are coming ♪
681
01:15:12,593 --> 01:15:16,180
♪And the roads are jammed ♪
682
01:15:16,346 --> 01:15:21,810
♪ The dancers are coming
and the roads ‒♪
683
01:15:21,977 --> 01:15:24,563
For what I do ‒percussion ‒
684
01:15:24,730 --> 01:15:27,524
Cuba is the mecca.
685
01:15:28,942 --> 01:15:33,030
Here there's nothing but pure...
686
01:15:33,197 --> 01:15:35,449
musical energy.
687
01:15:36,617 --> 01:15:40,537
The udu drum, which makes
the "goomp, goomp" sound ‒
688
01:15:40,704 --> 01:15:43,874
they all got a big kick
out of it last time...
689
01:15:44,041 --> 01:15:45,959
for Buena Vista Social Club.
690
01:15:46,126 --> 01:15:49,838
They all would laugh and
they'd see me ‒ "Ah, goomp, goomp."
691
01:15:50,005 --> 01:15:52,674
I became the guy
with the funny sounds.
692
01:15:53,717 --> 01:15:57,054
It's not anything obvious,
'cause it fills a pocket...
693
01:15:57,221 --> 01:16:00,390
that so much of the percussion
is going around ‒
694
01:16:00,557 --> 01:16:02,559
the "one" of each bar ‒
695
01:16:02,726 --> 01:16:04,728
that they usually leave out.
696
01:16:04,895 --> 01:16:08,440
It adds to what I know
Ry kind of has in mind ‒
697
01:16:08,607 --> 01:16:11,235
a strange departure...
698
01:16:11,401 --> 01:16:14,613
in a bizarre band
that never existed...
699
01:16:14,780 --> 01:16:17,074
back in the '60s or something.
700
01:16:18,784 --> 01:16:22,579
Puntillita took sort of an interest
in teaching me stuff...
701
01:16:22,746 --> 01:16:25,207
and everyone's a percussionist.
702
01:16:25,374 --> 01:16:27,960
And it's almost those
who aren't percussionists...
703
01:16:28,126 --> 01:16:30,254
that are the best percussionists.
704
01:16:30,420 --> 01:16:33,131
They're the ones
who have that light touch...
705
01:16:33,298 --> 01:16:35,425
that's so hard to find.
706
01:16:36,635 --> 01:16:40,305
There's no kind of learning
like the kind of learning...
707
01:16:40,472 --> 01:16:42,641
you get from the guys here.
708
01:16:42,808 --> 01:16:44,601
It's so subtle and quiet...
709
01:16:44,768 --> 01:16:47,229
and so powerful
at the same time.
710
01:16:51,024 --> 01:16:56,571
♪ Your kisses rained down
in a tempest of love ♪
711
01:16:57,030 --> 01:17:01,910
♪An unquenchable desire ♪
712
01:17:02,077 --> 01:17:04,204
♪ To join our lives in love ♪
713
01:17:04,371 --> 01:17:06,790
♪ Yet in spite of it all ♪
714
01:17:07,207 --> 01:17:10,711
♪ Your departure was my downfall ♪
715
01:17:12,754 --> 01:17:15,757
♪And put an end to all my dreams ♪
716
01:17:19,469 --> 01:17:23,890
♪ And they won't be revived ♪
717
01:17:25,934 --> 01:17:28,687
♪ Unless that day returns ♪
718
01:17:30,147 --> 01:17:32,774
♪ That day ♪
719
01:17:32,941 --> 01:17:38,822
♪ Of our last encounter ♪
720
01:17:39,197 --> 01:17:41,074
♪ Of love ♪
721
01:18:39,591 --> 01:18:41,843
How did this all get started?
722
01:18:44,721 --> 01:18:47,724
My friend Nick Gold
of World Circuit Records in London...
723
01:18:47,891 --> 01:18:51,728
called me up and asked
if I'd join him in Cuba...
724
01:18:51,895 --> 01:18:55,399
make a record of Cuban music
with some campesino musicians...
725
01:18:55,565 --> 01:18:58,193
and some West African players...
726
01:18:58,360 --> 01:19:01,530
which sounded like a great idea
that had never been tried.
727
01:19:01,696 --> 01:19:03,490
I said, "Sure."
728
01:19:03,657 --> 01:19:06,493
My wife and I had been
in Havana in the '70s...
729
01:19:06,660 --> 01:19:09,246
kind of poking around
and searching around...
730
01:19:09,413 --> 01:19:12,916
for this son music from a tape
a friend had given us.
731
01:19:13,083 --> 01:19:15,419
It had some
of the most incredible playing...
732
01:19:15,585 --> 01:19:17,587
and some
of the most beautiful songs.
733
01:19:17,754 --> 01:19:19,589
I had never heard anything like it.
734
01:19:19,756 --> 01:19:22,551
So we got on a boat
and went down there...
735
01:19:22,717 --> 01:19:24,636
and snuck around
and searched around...
736
01:19:24,803 --> 01:19:27,389
and actually got to hear
some good old-timers...
737
01:19:27,556 --> 01:19:30,517
but I didn't know what to do
about it in those days.
738
01:19:30,684 --> 01:19:34,938
I didn't know how to proceed
or anything, so we came back home.
739
01:19:35,105 --> 01:19:37,107
Been thinking about it ever since.
740
01:19:37,274 --> 01:19:39,776
So we got down this time...
741
01:19:39,943 --> 01:19:42,446
and Nick picked us up
at the airport and said...
742
01:19:42,612 --> 01:19:44,364
"The Africans couldn't make it.
743
01:19:44,531 --> 01:19:48,118
They got hung up in Paris.
What are we going to do here?"
744
01:19:48,285 --> 01:19:52,414
So we figured we'd just go ahead
with whoever we could find.
745
01:19:52,581 --> 01:19:54,458
And we started asking around...
746
01:19:54,624 --> 01:19:56,918
and Juan de Marcos
helped us out...
747
01:19:57,085 --> 01:20:00,005
and pretty soon we had
a room full of people...
748
01:20:00,172 --> 01:20:03,467
including Compay Segundo
and Eliades Ochoa...
749
01:20:03,633 --> 01:20:06,595
Ibrahim Ferrer, Amadito Valdés...
750
01:20:06,761 --> 01:20:08,680
Pío Leyva, Puntillita...
751
01:20:08,847 --> 01:20:11,016
and Rubén, Cachao.
752
01:20:11,183 --> 01:20:14,060
And Barbarito Torres,
who's the laúd player.
753
01:20:14,227 --> 01:20:18,023
Turned out it was him on the tape
I'd had all these years...
754
01:20:18,190 --> 01:20:20,859
that lured me down there
in the first place.
755
01:20:21,026 --> 01:20:23,778
These are people I'd heard
on records over the years.
756
01:20:23,945 --> 01:20:26,156
Had no idea
if they were living or dead.
757
01:20:26,323 --> 01:20:28,909
Rubén González
hadn't even had a piano in ten years.
758
01:20:29,075 --> 01:20:32,662
Hadn't really been playing. He told us
he had arthritis and couldn't play.
759
01:20:32,829 --> 01:20:34,748
Of course, that wasn't true.
760
01:20:34,915 --> 01:20:39,794
This is an example of the luck
and good fortune you have to have ‒
761
01:20:39,961 --> 01:20:43,048
to find out
that so many of these people...
762
01:20:43,215 --> 01:20:46,051
were still alive and well,
although forgotten...
763
01:20:46,218 --> 01:20:49,471
happy to play,
very generous and openhearted...
764
01:20:49,638 --> 01:20:52,516
with their talent
and their knowledge.
765
01:20:53,683 --> 01:20:57,687
It was a fantastic experience.
It was the kind of thing I feel...
766
01:20:58,813 --> 01:21:02,067
that might be fair to say
I've trained for my whole life.
767
01:21:02,234 --> 01:21:05,153
It's something very rare.
Like I tell Joachim...
768
01:21:05,320 --> 01:21:08,532
"This might just happen to you
once in your life."
769
01:21:12,536 --> 01:21:14,788
Flying back to Los Angeles,
I started thinking...
770
01:21:14,955 --> 01:21:17,916
what a great thing it'd be
to get everybody together...
771
01:21:18,083 --> 01:21:19,751
and do a show someplace.
772
01:21:19,918 --> 01:21:22,754
By that time, the record
had gotten so popular...
773
01:21:22,921 --> 01:21:25,507
that these guys
were all really busy.
774
01:21:25,674 --> 01:21:28,552
The only place we could get
everybody together was Amsterdam...
775
01:21:28,718 --> 01:21:31,388
at the Carré Theater ‒
two nights in April.
776
01:21:33,348 --> 01:21:37,060
Everybody knows
Carnegie Hall's the place to go.
777
01:21:37,227 --> 01:21:40,313
The Cubans kept asking me,
"When are we going to New York?
778
01:21:40,480 --> 01:21:42,232
When are we going
to Carnegie Hall?"
779
01:21:42,399 --> 01:21:44,484
I actually never thought it'd happen.
780
01:21:44,651 --> 01:21:48,071
But a lot of people worked hard
and tried really hard.
781
01:21:49,573 --> 01:21:52,075
And on July 1, we were there.
782
01:22:06,923 --> 01:22:10,552
♪ I want to dance at the beach ♪
783
01:22:10,719 --> 01:22:13,722
♪ Because the African's
asked me out on a spree ♪
784
01:22:29,654 --> 01:22:33,033
♪ On the beach I walk along ♪
785
01:22:33,491 --> 01:22:37,287
♪ Omara helps me with a song ♪
786
01:22:50,967 --> 01:22:52,969
It was a great night.
787
01:22:54,012 --> 01:22:57,223
They loved it. I loved it.
Everybody just went crazy.
788
01:22:58,642 --> 01:23:03,063
But that would be the last show
for the Buena Vista Social Club.
789
01:23:26,586 --> 01:23:29,089
♪ Let me hear you play it ♪
790
01:24:03,373 --> 01:24:06,042
♪ Whenever I ask you ♪
791
01:24:06,251 --> 01:24:09,504
♪ How, when, and where ♪
792
01:24:10,088 --> 01:24:13,091
♪ You always answer ♪
793
01:24:13,800 --> 01:24:16,845
♪ "Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps" ♪
794
01:24:17,512 --> 01:24:20,348
♪ "Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps" ♪
795
01:24:21,516 --> 01:24:28,273
♪ "Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps" ♪
796
01:25:11,900 --> 01:25:14,611
Look at that beautiful building!
797
01:25:14,986 --> 01:25:17,489
- A marvel.
- It's enormous!
798
01:25:17,655 --> 01:25:19,449
It's extraordinary.
799
01:25:19,616 --> 01:25:25,789
- These avenues are so beautiful.
- Just imagine!
800
01:25:26,873 --> 01:25:28,917
This is really great.
801
01:25:29,667 --> 01:25:31,795
Really beautiful.
802
01:25:39,010 --> 01:25:41,554
Are you calling Cuba?
803
01:25:51,272 --> 01:25:55,151
There's so much hustle and bustle.
804
01:25:57,070 --> 01:26:00,782
Look at the gun that guy has.
805
01:26:04,077 --> 01:26:06,955
- Don't shoot!
- Look there.
806
01:26:07,163 --> 01:26:10,083
All the greats are there.
807
01:26:10,250 --> 01:26:11,835
All the greats.
808
01:26:12,001 --> 01:26:14,254
There's Charlie Chaplin.
809
01:26:15,463 --> 01:26:19,717
- Remember Laurel and Hardy?
- The fat guy and the skinny guy!
810
01:26:20,093 --> 01:26:22,095
And look here.
811
01:26:22,262 --> 01:26:26,683
One of the most famous
trumpet players.
812
01:26:27,684 --> 01:26:29,561
Who's this guy?
813
01:26:30,228 --> 01:26:33,022
Who was the greatest
trumpet player ever?
814
01:26:33,189 --> 01:26:37,277
The one who used to play
out under the stars...
815
01:26:37,443 --> 01:26:42,699
and played the highest note
ever at that time.
816
01:26:43,950 --> 01:26:46,286
This guy was blind, remember?
817
01:26:46,452 --> 01:26:49,873
A great piano player.
And look who else is here.
818
01:26:50,039 --> 01:26:51,916
It says right here.
819
01:26:56,713 --> 01:26:59,173
They're all here.
820
01:27:19,986 --> 01:27:24,365
- Who's the one in the middle?
- With the saxophone?
821
01:27:24,532 --> 01:27:26,701
No, next to him.
822
01:27:27,368 --> 01:27:29,871
Let's see if I can remember.
823
01:27:30,413 --> 01:27:33,541
I can't remember...
824
01:27:33,708 --> 01:27:36,586
but he was
one of the great leaders.
825
01:27:42,175 --> 01:27:45,428
This is the life!
826
01:27:46,429 --> 01:27:50,266
This is so beautiful!
You can see everything.
827
01:27:50,433 --> 01:27:53,728
My plane flew in right along there.
828
01:27:53,895 --> 01:27:56,564
There's a plane taking off now.
829
01:27:57,815 --> 01:28:01,027
So they must fly in
from this direction.
830
01:28:02,445 --> 01:28:06,366
- But not right over this building.
- Let's go.
831
01:28:08,117 --> 01:28:10,286
Ladies and gentlemen, Rubén González!
832
01:28:44,988 --> 01:28:46,990
Where's the Statue of Liberty?
833
01:28:47,156 --> 01:28:48,700
Over there.
834
01:28:48,866 --> 01:28:52,328
With the big point on top.
835
01:28:53,037 --> 01:28:57,041
Near those two towers there.
You saw it when we came in yesterday.
836
01:28:57,208 --> 01:29:01,170
- Near that tower over there?
- No, this one over here.
837
01:29:01,462 --> 01:29:03,756
That can't be the statue.
838
01:29:03,923 --> 01:29:07,218
It's all by itself,
on the tip of an island.
839
01:29:07,427 --> 01:29:11,305
It's like that tiny one down there,
but much bigger.
840
01:29:13,141 --> 01:29:17,854
I thought the Statue of Liberty
had a crown.
841
01:29:19,022 --> 01:29:21,774
You can't make out
the crown from here.
842
01:29:21,941 --> 01:29:24,944
You'd have to look
through the viewer.
843
01:29:25,111 --> 01:29:28,156
You can't see the crown from here.
844
01:29:28,322 --> 01:29:30,825
Yeah, you'd have to get closer.
845
01:29:31,284 --> 01:29:33,619
But we know it's in that direction.
846
01:29:33,786 --> 01:29:35,705
That we do know.
847
01:30:45,274 --> 01:30:47,485
Let's move into the sun.
848
01:30:47,777 --> 01:30:50,655
You want sun? Let's go.
849
01:30:53,241 --> 01:30:57,453
- Have you ever been here before?
- Yes, many years ago.
850
01:30:57,620 --> 01:30:59,622
- Up here?
- Up here?
851
01:30:59,789 --> 01:31:02,500
- Who were you with?
- No, not up here.
852
01:31:02,667 --> 01:31:07,171
I went to the statue,
and we looked down ‒
853
01:31:07,338 --> 01:31:09,173
Who'd you go with?
854
01:31:09,340 --> 01:31:11,551
Some tourists.
855
01:31:11,717 --> 01:31:15,721
- That was in the 1920s, you said?
- I don't know the year.
856
01:31:15,972 --> 01:31:20,101
I was about 30,
and I'm 80 now.
857
01:34:18,070 --> 01:34:21,532
I want you to know
this is the first time...
858
01:34:21,824 --> 01:34:24,952
that I find myself
in New York, in the U.S.
859
01:34:25,953 --> 01:34:27,788
I've always longed...
860
01:34:28,164 --> 01:34:31,125
to see this city.
861
01:34:31,375 --> 01:34:34,337
I'm not an American,
and I can't speak English...
862
01:34:34,503 --> 01:34:40,176
but I think I'll start learning
a few words...
863
01:34:40,926 --> 01:34:43,763
so that I can hold my own.
864
01:34:56,442 --> 01:35:01,447
I wish I could bring my wife
and a few of my kids to see this.
865
01:35:02,323 --> 01:35:05,493
So they could see
how beautiful it is.
866
01:35:08,371 --> 01:35:11,040
This is just beautiful.
867
01:35:11,957 --> 01:35:14,043
Look, Radio City.
868
01:35:14,377 --> 01:35:17,088
At least I'm getting to see it.
869
01:35:25,221 --> 01:35:27,973
I'm so happy to see all this.
870
01:35:28,224 --> 01:35:30,309
I could never have imagined.
871
01:35:55,084 --> 01:35:58,337
It's so beautiful.
I'm really happy.
872
01:36:00,256 --> 01:36:03,134
About two years ago...
873
01:36:03,509 --> 01:36:06,303
I decided to retire.
874
01:36:06,470 --> 01:36:10,266
I didn't want to sing anymore.
I was disillusioned.
875
01:36:10,433 --> 01:36:14,186
I'd been through so much.
You know how life is.
876
01:36:14,728 --> 01:36:20,359
I thought, "I'm bored of singing.
I'm not earning anything."
877
01:36:22,027 --> 01:36:25,865
♪ I'm burning up! ♪
878
01:36:28,492 --> 01:36:30,870
♪ The fire's burning me ♪
879
01:36:31,036 --> 01:36:35,666
♪ I want to go on
having a good time ♪
880
01:36:57,855 --> 01:37:01,817
♪ I want a little something
without having to work for it ♪
881
01:37:02,818 --> 01:37:07,323
♪ I want a little something
without having to work for it ♪
882
01:37:07,490 --> 01:37:11,827
♪ It's above the knees
and below the waist ♪
883
01:37:11,994 --> 01:37:14,538
♪ Mama, I'm goin' crazy ♪
884
01:37:14,705 --> 01:37:16,790
♪ The fire's burning me up ♪
885
01:37:16,957 --> 01:37:19,543
♪ I want this good time to go on ♪
886
01:37:19,710 --> 01:37:21,712
♪ I don't want to be burned up ♪
887
01:37:21,879 --> 01:37:24,006
♪ I want to go on living ♪
888
01:37:24,173 --> 01:37:26,467
♪ I don't want to die tonight ♪
889
01:37:26,634 --> 01:37:29,261
♪ Mama, I'm burning up! ♪
890
01:38:09,635 --> 01:38:11,303
Thank you!
891
01:38:11,804 --> 01:38:14,390
Thank you, family!
Thank you, thank you!
892
01:38:15,057 --> 01:38:16,892
Thank you!
893
01:38:32,157 --> 01:38:36,203
I tell you,
my staff is like my mother.
894
01:38:37,705 --> 01:38:40,416
I've carried this staff for 58 years.
895
01:38:41,959 --> 01:38:45,379
That's how long I've had it.
Since my mother died.
896
01:39:10,279 --> 01:39:12,948
♪ From Alto Cedro
I head for Marcané ♪
897
01:39:13,115 --> 01:39:16,744
♪ I get to Cueto
and head for Mayarí♪
898
01:39:18,829 --> 01:39:22,791
THIS REVOLUTION IS ETERNAL
899
01:40:07,211 --> 01:40:09,672
WE BELIEVE IN DREAMS
900
01:41:16,864 --> 01:41:19,742
♪ From Alto Cedro
I head for Marcané ♪
901
01:41:19,908 --> 01:41:23,036
♪ I get to Cueto
and head for Mayarí ♪
902
01:41:54,735 --> 01:41:57,446
Ladies and gentlemen,
thank you for coming tonight.
903
01:41:59,448 --> 01:42:01,408
On the laúd,
Bárbaro Torres.
904
01:42:06,371 --> 01:42:08,373
One of the top singers
in Cuba...
905
01:42:08,540 --> 01:42:10,918
Manuel Licea,
"Puntillita."
906
01:42:12,961 --> 01:42:15,297
Ladies and gentlemen,
Compay Segundo!
907
01:42:19,301 --> 01:42:22,971
Señoras y señores,
Ibrahim Ferrer!
908
01:42:24,306 --> 01:42:27,309
Ladies and gentlemen,
Eliades Ochoa!
909
01:42:30,687 --> 01:42:33,190
Top singer Pío Leyva!
910
01:42:36,318 --> 01:42:39,404
Ladies and gentlemen,
Rubén González!
911
01:42:43,367 --> 01:42:47,663
Ladies and gentlemen,
Cachao López!
912
01:42:52,793 --> 01:42:55,963
Listen, the lady
of the golden voice...
913
01:42:56,129 --> 01:42:58,298
Omara Portuondo!
914
01:43:05,931 --> 01:43:09,226
And playing the timbal,
Amadito Valdés.
915
01:43:15,524 --> 01:43:18,777
And Guajiro Mirabal.
916
01:43:22,155 --> 01:43:24,783
Ladies and gentlemen,
playing the drums...
917
01:43:24,950 --> 01:43:26,869
Joachim Cooder!
918
01:43:29,121 --> 01:43:31,206
Ladies and gentlemen,
my partner...
919
01:43:31,373 --> 01:43:34,042
and my brother,
Ry Cooder!
920
01:43:40,173 --> 01:43:42,301
Thank you very much
for coming tonight.
921
01:43:47,431 --> 01:43:50,684
Our conductor:
my friend, Marcos González.
922
01:43:50,851 --> 01:43:53,020
Juan de Marcos.
923
01:43:53,228 --> 01:43:55,939
♪ From Alto Cedro
I head for Marcané ♪
924
01:43:56,106 --> 01:43:59,192
♪ I get to Cueto
and head for Mayarí ♪
925
01:44:05,073 --> 01:44:07,910
♪ From Alto Cedro
I head for Marcané ♪
926
01:44:08,076 --> 01:44:11,163
♪ I get to Cueto
and head for Mayarí ♪
927
01:44:17,377 --> 01:44:20,047
♪ From Alto Cedro
I head for Marcané ♪
928
01:44:20,213 --> 01:44:24,927
♪ I get to Cueto
and head for Mayarí ♪
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