Eliades Ochoa playing at the AfroCubism concert, with artists from Cuba and Mali, the original idea for Buena Vista Social Club, play at the Royal Albert Hall,London
AfroCubism was the original idea for Buena Vista Social Club. The original plan conceived in 1996 was to bring the foremost Cuban musicians and their Malian counterparts together to record in Havana and explore their shared musical history. As it turned out the Malians couldn’t make it to Cuba so an exclusively Cuban album was recorded instead and thus began the legend that became the multi-million selling Buena Vista Social Club. 14 years later the 13 piece all-star cast of musicians including Buena Vista hero Eliades Ochoa, Djelimady Tounkara, Toumani Diabaté, Bassekou Kouyate and Kasse Mady Diabaté finally got together and recorded AfroCubism
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