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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:35,245 --> 00:00:38,665 [Man] This is a famous photo I took... 2 00:00:39,332 --> 00:00:43,420 during the October Missile Crisis, outside the Hotel Riviera. 3 00:00:43,712 --> 00:00:48,633 The entire Malecón was full of antiaircraft guns and cannons. 4 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,469 We were expecting a U.S. invasion. 5 00:00:52,846 --> 00:00:56,558 I took this one in 1959 in Washington. 6 00:00:58,059 --> 00:01:02,230 Fidel placed a wreath before Abraham Lincoln. 7 00:01:02,731 --> 00:01:04,733 The photo's called "David and Goliath." 8 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:07,819 The little guy and the giant. 9 00:01:08,403 --> 00:01:12,282 This is Che Guevara and Fidel playing golf. 10 00:01:13,241 --> 00:01:14,951 [ Woman] Who won? 11 00:01:15,201 --> 00:01:16,661 Fidel. 12 00:01:17,787 --> 00:01:20,165 - Che let him win. - [ People Laughing ] 13 00:02:20,892 --> 00:02:22,769 Ah, the Buena Vista Social Club! 14 00:02:22,936 --> 00:02:25,605 [ Woman] Compay Segundo! Darling! 15 00:02:53,675 --> 00:02:58,388 We should ask these people, the older folks from the neighborhood. 16 00:02:58,555 --> 00:03:02,225 "Where was the Buena Vista Social Club?" 17 00:03:04,352 --> 00:03:06,020 Where are the old folks? 18 00:03:24,247 --> 00:03:25,790 This guy will know. 19 00:03:25,957 --> 00:03:29,711 We're looking for the social club. - The Buena Vista? 20 00:03:29,878 --> 00:03:31,629 That's long gone. 21 00:03:31,796 --> 00:03:36,843 The Buena Vista was... let's see. You go up that way. 22 00:03:37,010 --> 00:03:39,262 [ Indistinct ] 23 00:03:41,973 --> 00:03:44,183 It's a private house now. 24 00:03:44,392 --> 00:03:48,479 - [ Woman] It was No. 48. - But it's not there anymore. 25 00:03:48,646 --> 00:03:52,775 - We're looking for the old location. - Sure, the building's still there. 26 00:03:52,942 --> 00:03:55,737 - [ Woman] Between 21st and 42nd. - At 31st. 27 00:03:55,904 --> 00:04:01,534 If you go up this way, it's right there. 28 00:04:03,745 --> 00:04:07,957 - You used to dance there? - Yes. I was born around there. 29 00:04:09,250 --> 00:04:11,085 It's a private house now. 30 00:04:11,252 --> 00:04:14,255 You take the divided highway. 31 00:04:15,256 --> 00:04:17,759 [Man] Ladies and gentlemen, Compay Segundo! 32 00:04:23,598 --> 00:04:25,433 Eliades Ochoa! 33 00:04:36,402 --> 00:04:41,491 It's that house with a line painted on the door. 34 00:04:41,824 --> 00:04:47,413 It's been gone since 1944. We've lived here since then. 35 00:04:47,580 --> 00:04:52,251 I remember the guys who'd throw parties at the Buena Vista. 36 00:04:52,585 --> 00:04:57,840 In its day, the best bands in Cuba played there. 37 00:04:58,174 --> 00:05:01,636 Know what I eat when I've had too much to drink? 38 00:05:02,136 --> 00:05:04,472 Black cocoquetta soup. 39 00:05:04,847 --> 00:05:07,809 Chicken consommé. 40 00:05:08,059 --> 00:05:12,188 You take a piece of chicken neck and fry it up. 41 00:05:12,355 --> 00:05:16,109 When it's no longer bloody, you toss in some chopped garlic. 42 00:05:16,317 --> 00:05:20,446 I think there are still some remains of the bar. 43 00:05:21,447 --> 00:05:24,784 Anyone who eats that will have no aches or pains. 44 00:05:24,951 --> 00:05:27,620 You like mutton consommé? 45 00:05:27,787 --> 00:05:31,708 It clears everything out. 46 00:05:57,442 --> 00:05:59,861 [ Audience Applauding ] 47 00:06:38,316 --> 00:06:40,902 ♪ From Alto Cedro I head for Marcané ♪ 48 00:06:41,069 --> 00:06:44,655 ♪ I get to Cueto and head for Mayarí ♪ 49 00:06:44,822 --> 00:06:46,908 [Audience Applauding] 50 00:06:50,536 --> 00:06:53,581 ♪ From Alto Cedro I head for Marcané ♪ 51 00:06:53,748 --> 00:06:56,250 ♪ I get to Cueto and head for Mayarí ♪ 52 00:07:02,507 --> 00:07:05,760 ♪ From Alto Cedro I head for Marcané ♪ 53 00:07:05,927 --> 00:07:08,930 ♪ I get to Cueto and head for Mayarí ♪ 54 00:07:19,774 --> 00:07:21,776 ♪♪[ Continues] 55 00:07:32,829 --> 00:07:35,832 ♪ The love I have for you ♪ 56 00:07:35,998 --> 00:07:38,918 ♪ I cannot deny ♪ 57 00:07:39,085 --> 00:07:41,963 ♪ My mouth is watering ♪ 58 00:07:42,130 --> 00:07:45,591 ♪ I just can't help it ♪ 59 00:08:02,608 --> 00:08:05,653 ♪ When Juanica and Chan Chan ♪ 60 00:08:05,820 --> 00:08:08,573 ♪ Sifted sand together on the beach ♪ 61 00:08:08,739 --> 00:08:11,617 ♪ The way she shook the sieve ♪ 62 00:08:11,784 --> 00:08:14,787 ♪ Got Chan Chan all aroused ♪ 63 00:08:32,180 --> 00:08:34,891 ♪ Clear the dry cane leaves from the path ♪ 64 00:08:35,349 --> 00:08:38,227 ♪ Because I want to sit down ♪ 65 00:08:38,394 --> 00:08:41,022 ♪ On that trunk over there ♪ 66 00:08:41,189 --> 00:08:44,358 ♪ Or I might not make it ♪ 67 00:09:01,626 --> 00:09:04,545 ♪ From Alto Cedro I head for Marcané ♪ 68 00:09:04,712 --> 00:09:07,381 ♪ I get to Cueto and head for Mayarí♪ 69 00:09:13,387 --> 00:09:16,224 ♪ From Alto Cedro I head for Marcané ♪ 70 00:09:16,390 --> 00:09:19,560 ♪ I get to Cueto and head for Mayarí♪ 71 00:09:25,024 --> 00:09:27,735 ♪ From Alto Cedro I head for Marcané ♪ 72 00:09:27,902 --> 00:09:30,196 ♪ I get to Cueto and head for Mayarí ♪ 73 00:09:30,363 --> 00:09:32,031 Attack! 74 00:09:32,740 --> 00:09:34,659 From the front. 75 00:09:36,285 --> 00:09:38,829 ♪ From Alto Cedro I head for Marcané ♪ 76 00:09:38,996 --> 00:09:43,751 ♪ I get to Cueto and head for Mayarí ♪ 77 00:09:43,918 --> 00:09:45,836 ♪♪ [ Ends ] 78 00:09:46,003 --> 00:09:48,005 [Audience Applauding] 79 00:09:54,136 --> 00:09:56,555 It's great, so let's enjoy it! 80 00:10:13,864 --> 00:10:15,783 [Ry Cooder] My son Joachim and I... 81 00:10:15,950 --> 00:10:19,287 came back down here to Havana in March 1998. 82 00:10:23,124 --> 00:10:25,293 We'd been here before... 83 00:10:25,459 --> 00:10:28,963 about two years ago, recording the Buena Vista Social Club. 84 00:10:30,131 --> 00:10:31,966 I've been making records about 35 years... 85 00:10:32,133 --> 00:10:35,594 and you never know what the public's going to go for. 86 00:10:35,761 --> 00:10:39,890 This turned out to be the one they liked best. I like it the best. 87 00:10:40,057 --> 00:10:44,353 One of the great things about that record turned out to be Ibrahim Ferrer. 88 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:49,066 He'd come in off the street, kind of like a Cuban Nat King Cole. 89 00:10:49,233 --> 00:10:52,528 You stumble onto somebody like this maybe once in your life. 90 00:10:52,695 --> 00:10:54,989 We wanted to try recording with him... 91 00:10:55,156 --> 00:10:58,242 make a solo record, let him be heard. 92 00:10:58,409 --> 00:11:06,167 ♪ Asleep in my garden ♪ 93 00:11:09,211 --> 00:11:13,299 ♪ The spikenards and the roses ♪ 94 00:11:15,384 --> 00:11:20,139 ♪ The white lilies ♪ 95 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:25,561 ♪ And my soul ♪ 96 00:11:26,228 --> 00:11:31,859 ♪ So very sad and sorrowful ♪ 97 00:11:34,445 --> 00:11:39,033 ♪ It wants to hide from the flowers ♪ 98 00:11:40,743 --> 00:11:43,913 ♪ Its bitter pain ♪ 99 00:11:48,876 --> 00:11:56,842 ♪ I don't want the flowers to know ♪ 100 00:12:00,763 --> 00:12:04,058 ♪ Of the torments ♪ 101 00:12:05,226 --> 00:12:09,980 ♪ Life brings my way ♪ 102 00:12:13,192 --> 00:12:23,119 ♪ If they knew how I'm suffering ♪ 103 00:12:26,580 --> 00:12:34,588 ♪ They too would weep for my sorrow ♪ 104 00:12:38,843 --> 00:12:42,430 ♪ Hush ♪ 105 00:12:43,973 --> 00:12:47,601 ♪ For they are sleeping ♪ 106 00:12:50,896 --> 00:12:55,317 ♪ The spikenards ♪ 107 00:12:55,943 --> 00:13:01,657 ♪ And the lilies ♪ 108 00:13:03,033 --> 00:13:08,122 ♪ I don't want them to know ♪ 109 00:13:08,289 --> 00:13:13,335 ♪ Of my sorrows ♪ 110 00:13:14,628 --> 00:13:20,217 ♪ For if they see me weeping ♪ 111 00:13:20,634 --> 00:13:22,553 ♪ They will die ♪ 112 00:13:29,852 --> 00:13:32,730 [Audience Applauding] 113 00:13:38,777 --> 00:13:40,779 ♪♪ [ Continues ] 114 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:22,112 ♪ Hush ♪ 115 00:14:22,279 --> 00:14:28,619 ♪ For they are sleeping ♪ 116 00:14:29,620 --> 00:14:34,750 ♪ The spikenards ♪ 117 00:14:34,917 --> 00:14:41,215 ♪ And the lilies ♪ 118 00:14:42,508 --> 00:14:47,221 ♪ I don't want them to know ♪ 119 00:14:47,388 --> 00:14:53,561 ♪ Of my sorrows ♪ 120 00:14:53,727 --> 00:14:59,233 ♪ For if they see me weeping ♪ 121 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:01,986 ♪ They will die ♪ 122 00:15:04,947 --> 00:15:10,202 ♪ For if they see me weeping ♪ 123 00:15:10,369 --> 00:15:12,496 ♪ They will die ♪ 124 00:15:16,083 --> 00:15:22,089 ♪ For if they see me weeping ♪ 125 00:15:23,799 --> 00:15:32,975 ♪ They will die ♪ 126 00:15:37,146 --> 00:15:39,148 ♪♪[Ends] 127 00:15:49,992 --> 00:15:52,369 [Man ] Omara Portuondo! 128 00:15:59,043 --> 00:16:01,086 ♪♪ [ Chattanooga Choo Choo ] 129 00:16:02,713 --> 00:16:04,715 ♪♪ [ Scatting ] 130 00:16:16,769 --> 00:16:21,315 I, Ibrahim Ferrer Planas... 131 00:16:21,649 --> 00:16:26,987 was born in a small town in the province of Santiago de Cuba... 132 00:16:27,821 --> 00:16:29,823 called San Luis. 133 00:16:30,074 --> 00:16:33,744 I'm the son of Aurelia Ferrer... 134 00:16:34,119 --> 00:16:38,582 registered as her natural-born son. 135 00:16:40,417 --> 00:16:44,088 I say this because... 136 00:16:45,339 --> 00:16:49,009 I want everyone to hear directly from me... 137 00:16:49,176 --> 00:16:52,680 who I am and what I am. 138 00:16:53,263 --> 00:16:55,015 At 12 years of age... 139 00:16:56,183 --> 00:16:58,519 I lost my mother. 140 00:16:58,686 --> 00:17:01,605 - ♪♪ [ Singing ] - I'd already lost my father. 141 00:17:01,772 --> 00:17:03,816 I was left an orphan... 142 00:17:04,274 --> 00:17:07,945 my mother's only child. 143 00:17:09,488 --> 00:17:12,491 So I had to make my way in life. 144 00:17:16,120 --> 00:17:20,165 I attended school just like my friends... 145 00:17:20,332 --> 00:17:23,711 but I had to drop out... 146 00:17:23,961 --> 00:17:28,132 because life back then... 147 00:17:28,507 --> 00:17:30,968 wasn't like it is now. 148 00:17:31,135 --> 00:17:33,721 It was harder. 149 00:17:33,887 --> 00:17:37,391 I had to find my own way in life. 150 00:17:40,686 --> 00:17:42,646 You need a hand? 151 00:17:46,233 --> 00:17:48,235 ♪♪ [ Singing ] 152 00:18:02,916 --> 00:18:05,627 We were just taking a break. 153 00:18:05,919 --> 00:18:09,923 Rubén loves to improvise on his own, and then I join in. 154 00:18:10,090 --> 00:18:14,511 So I started singing. " Compadre, pick up this tune." 155 00:18:14,678 --> 00:18:17,097 ♪ Two gardenias for you ♪ 156 00:18:17,264 --> 00:18:20,768 ♪ With them I mean to say I love you, I adore you ♪ 157 00:18:20,934 --> 00:18:22,603 ♪ My love ♪ 158 00:18:22,770 --> 00:18:25,022 ♪ Give them your full attention ♪ 159 00:18:25,189 --> 00:18:28,358 ♪ They'll be your heart and mine ♪ 160 00:18:30,527 --> 00:18:33,906 Ry Cooder heard it too. 161 00:18:34,156 --> 00:18:38,368 I'd sung that number casually... 162 00:18:39,953 --> 00:18:41,997 just to loosen up. 163 00:18:42,289 --> 00:18:44,082 And he recorded it. 164 00:18:45,834 --> 00:18:49,630 - ♪ Two gardenias for you ♪ - [Audience Applauding] 165 00:18:49,797 --> 00:18:51,799 ♪ With them I mean to say ♪ 166 00:18:53,550 --> 00:18:55,594 ♪ I love you ♪ 167 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:58,806 ♪ I adore you ♪ 168 00:18:59,848 --> 00:19:03,602 ♪ My love ♪ 169 00:19:04,353 --> 00:19:07,481 ♪ Give them your full attention ♪ 170 00:19:07,981 --> 00:19:13,487 ♪ They'll be your heart and mine ♪ 171 00:19:16,490 --> 00:19:18,951 ♪ Two gardenias for you ♪ 172 00:19:19,910 --> 00:19:25,666 ♪ With all the warmth of a kiss ♪ 173 00:19:28,335 --> 00:19:31,088 ♪ Those kisses I gave you ♪ 174 00:19:31,296 --> 00:19:34,633 ♪ And that you'll never find ♪ 175 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:37,719 ♪ In the arms of another love ♪ 176 00:19:39,847 --> 00:19:43,976 ♪ They'll live in your presence ♪ 177 00:19:44,768 --> 00:19:49,690 ♪ And speak to you as I do ♪ 178 00:19:52,985 --> 00:19:58,073 ♪ You'll even believe they're saying ♪ 179 00:19:59,867 --> 00:20:03,245 ♪ "I love you"♪ 180 00:20:04,246 --> 00:20:07,457 ♪ But if one evening at twilight ♪ 181 00:20:07,624 --> 00:20:13,297 ♪ My love's gardenias should die ♪ 182 00:20:15,465 --> 00:20:18,719 ♪ It's because they've realized ♪ 183 00:20:19,136 --> 00:20:21,805 ♪ That you've betrayed me ♪ 184 00:20:21,972 --> 00:20:25,559 ♪ For the love of another ♪ 185 00:20:27,436 --> 00:20:30,522 [Ferrer] ♪ It wishes to hide ♪ 186 00:20:31,356 --> 00:20:34,026 ♪ Its bitter pain ♪ 187 00:20:38,655 --> 00:20:40,741 [Portuondo] ♪ I don't want ♪ 188 00:20:40,908 --> 00:20:42,826 Nice. 189 00:20:44,077 --> 00:20:48,248 ♪ The flowers to know ♪ 190 00:20:50,918 --> 00:20:54,463 ♪ Of the torments ♪ 191 00:20:55,464 --> 00:21:00,093 - ♪ Life brings my way ♪ - Wow. 192 00:21:04,014 --> 00:21:12,814 ♪ If they knew how I'm suffering ♪ 193 00:21:13,690 --> 00:21:17,194 My name is Omara Portuondo. 194 00:21:17,444 --> 00:21:20,072 I was born here in Havana... 195 00:21:20,489 --> 00:21:22,950 in the area known as Cayo Hueso. 196 00:21:23,700 --> 00:21:25,786 Two blocks that way? 197 00:21:28,372 --> 00:21:34,211 My father was a famous baseball player. 198 00:21:34,378 --> 00:21:37,047 He was one of the first Cubans... 199 00:21:37,214 --> 00:21:40,467 to play outside this country. 200 00:21:40,634 --> 00:21:43,011 They took Cuban baseball to the U.S. 201 00:21:43,178 --> 00:21:46,306 My mother and father... 202 00:21:47,140 --> 00:21:51,186 used to relax after lunch... 203 00:21:51,353 --> 00:21:55,315 and they'd sing a few duets. 204 00:21:55,649 --> 00:21:58,986 And that's when my love of Cuban music began. 205 00:22:00,445 --> 00:22:05,075 For example, I started singing La Bayamesa when I was a little girl. 206 00:22:05,242 --> 00:22:09,413 My father would sing lead and I'd sing harmony. 207 00:22:09,871 --> 00:22:15,961 And the song I recorded on the album that won a Grammy, "Veinte Años" ‒ 208 00:22:16,628 --> 00:22:20,007 I've known that one since I was a child too. 209 00:22:21,216 --> 00:22:24,011 ♪ What's it matter if I love you ♪ 210 00:22:24,386 --> 00:22:26,847 ♪ If you don't love me anymore ♪ 211 00:22:27,639 --> 00:22:31,977 ♪ A love now past must not be brought to mind ♪ 212 00:22:32,728 --> 00:22:35,147 ♪ I was the love of your life ♪ 213 00:22:35,897 --> 00:22:38,525 ♪ Once so very long ago ♪ 214 00:22:39,234 --> 00:22:41,903 ♪ But now I'm part of the past ♪ 215 00:22:42,070 --> 00:22:45,365 ♪ And I just can't accept it ♪ 216 00:22:45,991 --> 00:22:49,578 ♪ If we could have ♪ 217 00:22:49,870 --> 00:22:53,540 ♪ Everything we wanted ♪ 218 00:22:53,874 --> 00:22:57,377 ♪ You'd still love me the same ♪ 219 00:22:57,753 --> 00:23:00,338 ♪ As 20 years ago ♪ 220 00:23:01,048 --> 00:23:04,384 ♪ With such sadness we watch ♪ 221 00:23:04,843 --> 00:23:08,263 ♪ As love fades away ♪ 222 00:23:08,722 --> 00:23:14,853 ♪ And a part of our soul is so heartlessly torn away ♪ 223 00:23:16,271 --> 00:23:19,316 ♪ And a part of our soul ♪ 224 00:23:19,483 --> 00:23:28,784 ♪ Is so heartlessly torn away ♪ 225 00:23:30,243 --> 00:23:32,537 - ♪♪ [ Ends ] - [Audience Applauding] 226 00:23:36,625 --> 00:23:39,086 ♪♪[Rhythmic Guitar] 227 00:23:50,639 --> 00:23:54,392 ♪ Here on the beach how María enjoys herself ♪ 228 00:23:54,684 --> 00:23:58,188 ♪ Here on the beach, María how you excite me ♪ 229 00:23:58,355 --> 00:24:02,275 ♪ Here on the beach how María enjoys herself ♪ 230 00:24:02,442 --> 00:24:06,738 ♪ Here on the beach, María how you excite me ♪ 231 00:24:08,281 --> 00:24:12,285 [Man ] I was born in 1907. 232 00:24:13,120 --> 00:24:16,206 On the coast, by the sea... 233 00:24:17,207 --> 00:24:18,875 in Siboney. 234 00:24:19,376 --> 00:24:22,796 I lived there with my father. 235 00:24:23,505 --> 00:24:28,802 He drove trains for the manganese mines. 236 00:24:28,969 --> 00:24:32,973 I lived in Siboney until I was about nine, 237 00:24:33,140 --> 00:24:35,225 until my grandmother died. 238 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:40,522 Then my brothers and I moved to Santiago de Cuba. 239 00:24:41,106 --> 00:24:46,611 But I couldn't leave Siboney until my grandmother died. 240 00:24:48,113 --> 00:24:50,157 She told me that. 241 00:24:50,323 --> 00:24:55,495 "Grandson, until I die, you cannot leave my side." 242 00:24:56,246 --> 00:25:00,542 I used to light her cigars. 243 00:25:01,835 --> 00:25:04,421 I was five years old. 244 00:25:04,713 --> 00:25:08,508 She'd say, "Light me a cigar." 245 00:25:08,842 --> 00:25:12,387 And I would, from the age of five on. 246 00:25:12,929 --> 00:25:17,350 I'd hand it to Grandma, and she'd smoke it. 247 00:25:17,684 --> 00:25:20,103 So you might say... 248 00:25:20,812 --> 00:25:24,691 I've been smoking for 85 years. 249 00:25:25,275 --> 00:25:27,194 [Audience Applauding] 250 00:25:44,002 --> 00:25:47,130 I have to work hard, because Ry Cooder's here. 251 00:25:47,297 --> 00:25:49,382 [Audience Applauding] 252 00:26:32,926 --> 00:26:39,599 ♪ In the trunk of a tree a young girl ♪ 253 00:26:41,559 --> 00:26:47,732 ♪ Joyfully carved her name ♪ 254 00:26:50,652 --> 00:26:55,949 ♪ And the tree, moved to its very soul ♪ 255 00:26:58,493 --> 00:27:02,372 ♪ Sent a flower floating down ♪ 256 00:27:02,539 --> 00:27:04,624 ♪ To the young girl ♪ 257 00:27:06,251 --> 00:27:09,421 ♪ I am that tree ♪ 258 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,758 ♪ So moved and so sad ♪ 259 00:27:15,802 --> 00:27:18,930 ♪ And you're the young girl ♪ 260 00:27:19,431 --> 00:27:22,475 ♪ Who cut into my flesh ♪ 261 00:27:24,561 --> 00:27:28,231 ♪ I'll always treasure ♪ 262 00:27:28,398 --> 00:27:31,943 ♪ Your dear name ♪ 263 00:27:32,694 --> 00:27:34,988 ♪ But tell me ♪ 264 00:27:35,155 --> 00:27:38,158 ♪ What have you done with my poor flower? ♪ 265 00:28:21,659 --> 00:28:24,162 I learned that when I was this big. 266 00:28:24,704 --> 00:28:26,206 That's it. 267 00:28:37,384 --> 00:28:39,552 [Man] Music is so beautiful! 268 00:28:40,970 --> 00:28:44,349 My name is Eliades Ochoa Bustamante. 269 00:28:45,016 --> 00:28:51,147 I was born in Santiago de Cuba on June 22, 1946. 270 00:28:51,981 --> 00:28:55,902 My mother, Jacoba Bustamante, played the tres. 271 00:28:56,194 --> 00:28:59,364 So did my father. We were a musical family. 272 00:28:59,531 --> 00:29:02,242 I was born in the countryside... 273 00:29:02,409 --> 00:29:04,744 so of course I'd hear music... 274 00:29:04,911 --> 00:29:08,456 from the moment I woke up in the morning. 275 00:29:08,665 --> 00:29:11,418 Besides having music in my blood... 276 00:29:11,626 --> 00:29:15,713 I heard music night and day. 277 00:29:16,339 --> 00:29:21,761 In 1958, when I was no bigger than a guitar... 278 00:29:21,928 --> 00:29:27,392 I began playing all around Santiago. 279 00:29:27,684 --> 00:29:33,648 In the red light district I'd play and pass the hat: 280 00:29:33,857 --> 00:29:36,067 "Support Cuban musicians." 281 00:29:36,234 --> 00:29:39,279 That's how I made some money... 282 00:29:39,446 --> 00:29:45,368 which I took home to help out my parents. 283 00:29:55,086 --> 00:29:57,130 [Audience Applauding] 284 00:30:17,609 --> 00:30:23,573 ♪ Along the road by my house a merry cart driver went by ♪ 285 00:30:31,206 --> 00:30:34,209 ♪ His songs came from the heart ♪ 286 00:30:34,501 --> 00:30:37,086 ♪ In his jolly way he sang ♪ 287 00:30:42,133 --> 00:30:45,428 ♪ "I'm going to the ferry ♪ 288 00:30:45,595 --> 00:30:48,389 ♪ To unload my cart ♪ 289 00:30:53,186 --> 00:30:58,816 ♪ And finish another day of my back-breaking work" ♪ 290 00:30:58,983 --> 00:31:04,364 ♪ We ride up into the hills ♪ 291 00:31:12,539 --> 00:31:14,874 Hey, compay! 292 00:31:18,378 --> 00:31:21,339 ♪ I work without rest ♪ 293 00:31:21,714 --> 00:31:24,050 ♪ So that I can get married ♪ 294 00:31:24,217 --> 00:31:26,970 ♪ If I can manage that ♪ 295 00:31:27,387 --> 00:31:29,931 ♪ I'll be a lucky country lad ♪ 296 00:31:32,392 --> 00:31:36,104 [Ochoa ] My days of passing the hat are over. 297 00:31:37,730 --> 00:31:41,276 You never forget it, but it's in the past now. 298 00:31:46,990 --> 00:31:50,118 ♪ I'm a country lad and cart driver ♪ 299 00:31:50,285 --> 00:31:53,621 ♪And I live well on the land ♪ 300 00:31:58,251 --> 00:32:01,588 ♪ The countryside is the Garden of Eden ♪ 301 00:32:01,754 --> 00:32:03,965 ♪ The loveliest in the world ♪ 302 00:32:04,173 --> 00:32:06,759 ♪ We ride up into the hills ♪ 303 00:32:06,926 --> 00:32:09,512 ♪ We ride up into the hills ♪ 304 00:32:09,679 --> 00:32:12,974 ♪ We ride up into the hills ♪ 305 00:32:13,141 --> 00:32:16,227 ♪ We ride up into the hills ♪ 306 00:32:16,394 --> 00:32:19,731 ♪ Cultivate the hills and the plains ♪ 307 00:32:19,897 --> 00:32:22,775 ♪And reap the fruits of your toil ♪ 308 00:32:22,942 --> 00:32:25,695 ♪♪[ Continues] 309 00:32:45,965 --> 00:32:47,800 Hey, how are you? 310 00:32:48,301 --> 00:32:52,138 We've been waiting ages. You're late. 311 00:32:53,097 --> 00:32:56,392 I thought maybe the cops got you. 312 00:32:56,768 --> 00:32:58,394 Come on up. 313 00:33:06,152 --> 00:33:07,820 Come in. 314 00:33:14,702 --> 00:33:16,996 Make yourselves at home. 315 00:33:19,666 --> 00:33:22,669 [Ferrer] At one time, in Santiago de Cuba... 316 00:33:22,835 --> 00:33:25,088 my grandfather was... 317 00:33:25,254 --> 00:33:28,883 president of a French society. 318 00:33:29,634 --> 00:33:32,178 It was called "El Cucuyé." 319 00:33:33,429 --> 00:33:39,352 A delegation of Africans... 320 00:33:40,144 --> 00:33:42,230 came to visit him there... 321 00:33:42,397 --> 00:33:46,359 and my mother really liked one of the African women. 322 00:33:47,402 --> 00:33:50,655 And when that woman left... 323 00:33:50,822 --> 00:33:53,032 she gave my mother this staff. 324 00:33:53,199 --> 00:33:55,952 My mother was a firm believer in this Lazarus... 325 00:33:56,119 --> 00:33:59,372 which I now have. 326 00:33:59,539 --> 00:34:01,916 I firmly believe in my Lazarus too. 327 00:34:02,083 --> 00:34:04,544 They call him "the beggar." 328 00:34:05,420 --> 00:34:07,755 He's a powerful figure. 329 00:34:07,922 --> 00:34:12,510 He opens up paths... 330 00:34:12,677 --> 00:34:16,431 and helps the destitute, you might say. 331 00:34:17,390 --> 00:34:20,226 The other one's the same... 332 00:34:20,518 --> 00:34:23,354 but this Lazarus is the one I carry inside... 333 00:34:23,521 --> 00:34:25,690 the one who asks for alms. 334 00:34:27,191 --> 00:34:30,528 I place flowers before him. 335 00:34:30,820 --> 00:34:34,490 Sometimes I light a candle to him. 336 00:34:34,949 --> 00:34:36,951 I give him honey. 337 00:34:39,245 --> 00:34:43,666 See? I pour honey in here for him. 338 00:34:44,792 --> 00:34:48,296 And lots of perfume. 339 00:34:51,215 --> 00:34:52,925 Lots of perfume. 340 00:34:53,217 --> 00:34:56,471 Every time I go out I spray him... 341 00:34:56,846 --> 00:34:59,015 and myself too. 342 00:35:07,607 --> 00:35:09,609 His little shot of rum. 343 00:35:09,776 --> 00:35:12,069 I like it... 344 00:35:12,695 --> 00:35:17,074 so I just assume if we like it, he must like it too. 345 00:35:17,450 --> 00:35:20,328 So he gets his little shot of rum. 346 00:35:22,997 --> 00:35:25,958 Sometimes my wife makes him a meringue. 347 00:35:26,125 --> 00:35:27,835 You know what that is? 348 00:35:28,002 --> 00:35:31,088 She makes it, and we place it there for him. 349 00:35:31,255 --> 00:35:33,591 We dedicate it to him. 350 00:35:33,966 --> 00:35:39,013 So that's how he gets all these things. 351 00:35:40,848 --> 00:35:44,977 We Cubans can be thankful... 352 00:35:45,353 --> 00:35:50,441 to, I don't know, the man up there that we are the way we are. 353 00:35:50,650 --> 00:35:55,112 If we cared about possessions, we'd have vanished long ago. 354 00:35:55,488 --> 00:35:59,158 But we Cubans are unique. 355 00:36:00,201 --> 00:36:04,038 We're a small country... 356 00:36:04,247 --> 00:36:06,582 but we're strong. 357 00:36:07,041 --> 00:36:10,378 We've learned how to hold on... 358 00:36:10,878 --> 00:36:13,881 through good times and bad. 359 00:36:15,675 --> 00:36:17,677 ♪♪[Flourish] 360 00:36:19,011 --> 00:36:21,013 ♪♪ [ Vocalizing ] 361 00:36:24,016 --> 00:36:26,143 ♪♪[Flourish] 362 00:36:28,437 --> 00:36:34,485 ♪ Cienfuegos has its guaguancó sound ♪ 363 00:36:41,409 --> 00:36:44,912 ♪ Today I'm filled with emotion ♪ 364 00:36:45,371 --> 00:36:48,666 ♪ I will sing to my land ♪ 365 00:36:53,462 --> 00:36:56,841 ♪ To that famous region ♪ 366 00:36:57,508 --> 00:37:01,345 ♪ Known as the Pearl of the South ♪ 367 00:37:09,770 --> 00:37:12,899 ♪ Its women are the finest ♪ 368 00:37:13,900 --> 00:37:17,612 ♪ Radiant as the stars ♪ 369 00:37:21,908 --> 00:37:25,411 ♪And for the elegant way they walk ♪ 370 00:37:25,912 --> 00:37:29,123 ♪ They're admired throughout the land ♪ 371 00:37:30,499 --> 00:37:34,253 ♪ Cienfuegos, I carry you ♪ 372 00:37:34,962 --> 00:37:38,257 ♪ Deep within my heart ♪ 373 00:37:42,053 --> 00:37:44,931 ♪ That's why with special pride ♪ 374 00:37:45,097 --> 00:37:48,893 ♪ I sing you this inspiration ♪ 375 00:37:53,397 --> 00:37:57,026 ♪ So you see, my brother ♪ 376 00:37:57,443 --> 00:38:01,197 ♪ Cienfuegos has its guaguancó sound ♪ 377 00:39:10,057 --> 00:39:12,810 That's the ending! 378 00:39:16,230 --> 00:39:19,692 That's how Juan de Marcos wanted it. 379 00:39:23,362 --> 00:39:26,115 From the first note. That's the one we need. 380 00:39:26,282 --> 00:39:28,367 Thank you, thank you. Beautiful. 381 00:39:31,871 --> 00:39:34,040 Couldn't live through another one, I know that. 382 00:39:34,206 --> 00:39:36,208 [ Chuckles ] 383 00:39:43,758 --> 00:39:46,093 ♪♪[Flourish] 384 00:39:46,260 --> 00:39:48,345 ♪♪[Ferrer Vocalizing] 385 00:39:52,183 --> 00:39:54,643 ♪♪[Flourish] 386 00:39:56,854 --> 00:40:02,193 ♪ Cienfuegos has its guaguancó sound ♪ 387 00:40:09,658 --> 00:40:13,537 ♪ Today I'm filled with emotion ♪ 388 00:40:13,704 --> 00:40:18,209 ♪ I will sing to my land ♪ 389 00:40:21,879 --> 00:40:25,716 ♪ To that famous region ♪ 390 00:40:25,883 --> 00:40:29,970 ♪ Known as the Pearl of the South ♪ 391 00:40:38,062 --> 00:40:42,024 ♪ Its women are the finest ♪ 392 00:40:42,191 --> 00:40:46,153 ♪ Radiant as the stars ♪ 393 00:40:50,574 --> 00:40:53,285 ♪And for the elegant way they walk ♪ 394 00:40:54,411 --> 00:40:58,791 ♪ They're admired throughout the land ♪ 395 00:40:58,958 --> 00:41:02,461 ♪ Cienfuegos, I carry you ♪ 396 00:41:03,379 --> 00:41:06,757 ♪ Deep within my heart ♪ 397 00:41:10,386 --> 00:41:13,556 ♪ That's why with special pride ♪ [Fades] 398 00:41:13,722 --> 00:41:15,724 ♪♪[Piano] 399 00:42:21,707 --> 00:42:25,127 My name is Rubén González y Fontanills. 400 00:42:25,836 --> 00:42:30,382 I was born in the city of Santa Clara... 401 00:42:31,383 --> 00:42:33,844 in 1919. 402 00:42:34,011 --> 00:42:39,934 At the age of seven I began studying piano. 403 00:42:40,893 --> 00:42:43,395 My family had bought a piano. 404 00:42:43,938 --> 00:42:46,690 It was a very good one, a John Stowers. 405 00:42:48,234 --> 00:42:50,236 It was a player piano too. 406 00:42:50,402 --> 00:42:52,529 It sounded wonderful. 407 00:42:52,863 --> 00:42:56,867 When I saw that instrument, I went crazy. 408 00:42:57,451 --> 00:43:00,496 I really liked it. 409 00:43:00,663 --> 00:43:03,874 I'd do all kinds of things on it. 410 00:43:04,041 --> 00:43:06,210 So I started studying. 411 00:43:06,377 --> 00:43:09,421 When my mother saw I had the potential... 412 00:43:09,588 --> 00:43:11,882 to be a great piano player... 413 00:43:12,049 --> 00:43:15,594 she arranged lessons for me... 414 00:43:15,761 --> 00:43:17,846 with a private teacher... 415 00:43:18,430 --> 00:43:20,557 from Cienfuegos. 416 00:43:20,891 --> 00:43:23,894 So I studied with her for one year... 417 00:43:24,687 --> 00:43:28,107 then two, three, four... 418 00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:30,526 up to eight years. 419 00:43:30,818 --> 00:43:32,778 That's when she told me... 420 00:43:32,945 --> 00:43:36,282 "Rubén, you're going to be a good pianist. 421 00:43:36,448 --> 00:43:39,827 You have great skill with your hands." 422 00:47:55,415 --> 00:47:58,460 [Ferrer] I was forgotten. I just stayed home. 423 00:47:58,627 --> 00:48:00,420 But I wasn't going to starve. 424 00:48:00,587 --> 00:48:03,715 I shined shoes, I collected trash. 425 00:48:04,633 --> 00:48:09,221 I sold coal. I had a family to support. 426 00:48:09,888 --> 00:48:12,224 I'm not ashamed to say that. 427 00:48:14,726 --> 00:48:18,397 We moved from Santa Clara to Havana. 428 00:48:18,564 --> 00:48:24,027 But in the capital I started feeling insecure. 429 00:48:24,194 --> 00:48:30,200 I thought, "There are lots of piano players in Havana!" 430 00:48:30,576 --> 00:48:34,413 So I began to study... 431 00:48:34,913 --> 00:48:37,708 everything I could. 432 00:48:38,083 --> 00:48:43,922 It turned out that next door there was a man... 433 00:48:44,506 --> 00:48:48,260 who later came to be known as Arsenio. 434 00:48:48,427 --> 00:48:50,971 He formed a famous band. 435 00:48:51,138 --> 00:48:53,682 He heard me play. 436 00:48:53,849 --> 00:48:57,144 But Arsenio was blind. 437 00:48:57,436 --> 00:48:59,563 He wasn't born that way. 438 00:48:59,730 --> 00:49:03,358 He'd lost his eyesight in an accident. 439 00:49:03,609 --> 00:49:06,069 Anyway, one day he said to me... 440 00:49:06,236 --> 00:49:09,781 "Would you like to play in my group?" 441 00:49:09,948 --> 00:49:12,451 I said, "Sure." 442 00:49:12,826 --> 00:49:15,954 His pianist had left... 443 00:49:16,204 --> 00:49:18,290 and gone to Europe. 444 00:49:18,790 --> 00:49:23,086 So I took his place and played with Arsenio for four years... 445 00:49:23,253 --> 00:49:26,673 and it was a successful time for me. 446 00:49:47,986 --> 00:49:51,657 People talked about how Arsenio would get argumentative... 447 00:49:51,823 --> 00:49:54,117 and they'd argue back... 448 00:49:54,826 --> 00:49:58,205 and he'd get really angry. 449 00:49:58,497 --> 00:50:00,666 You know what he'd do? 450 00:50:01,041 --> 00:50:03,502 He'd stand like this... 451 00:50:03,669 --> 00:50:08,340 and then lunge toward any voice he heard to grab that person. 452 00:50:08,507 --> 00:50:10,592 But since he was blind... 453 00:50:10,759 --> 00:50:13,387 everyone would just scatter. 454 00:50:13,929 --> 00:50:18,183 We'd tell each other, "Keep quiet so he won't know I'm here!" 455 00:50:18,350 --> 00:50:21,186 And he'd come at you like this. 456 00:50:21,353 --> 00:50:23,897 He'd get really mad... 457 00:50:24,064 --> 00:50:28,860 when people didn't show him respect. 458 00:50:29,236 --> 00:50:34,032 He was a big, strong, fat guy... 459 00:50:34,700 --> 00:50:36,702 and taller than everyone else. 460 00:50:36,868 --> 00:50:38,704 I'd laugh like crazy. 461 00:50:38,870 --> 00:50:41,873 [Ferrer] I swear I'm not gonna smoke anymore. 462 00:50:42,916 --> 00:50:44,376 Honest. 463 00:50:44,543 --> 00:50:46,670 Well, just a bit. 464 00:50:47,754 --> 00:50:49,381 Just a little. 465 00:50:49,548 --> 00:50:53,176 And no more drinking either. 466 00:50:53,343 --> 00:50:55,053 I used to drink. 467 00:50:55,429 --> 00:50:59,099 Man, did I ever drink! 468 00:51:00,934 --> 00:51:05,397 But I've got my bodyguard here. 469 00:51:06,314 --> 00:51:08,233 She won't let me. 470 00:51:12,946 --> 00:51:17,284 This is Arsenio Rodríguez. It's the best picture of him. 471 00:51:26,126 --> 00:51:28,920 May 24, 1946. 472 00:51:29,087 --> 00:51:33,759 The band toured a lot in Mexico... 473 00:51:33,925 --> 00:51:36,052 and also in Venezuela. 474 00:51:36,219 --> 00:51:40,098 This guy died a while back. Most of them are gone. 475 00:51:40,265 --> 00:51:42,225 This guy's still alive. 476 00:51:42,392 --> 00:51:44,561 He's almost 100 now. 477 00:51:45,771 --> 00:51:48,565 Pascualito is his name. He plays the timbal. 478 00:51:50,025 --> 00:51:52,611 Yes, he died in Spain. 479 00:51:57,324 --> 00:51:58,867 Well... 480 00:52:00,786 --> 00:52:03,163 I'm asking who wrote "Como Fue"... 481 00:52:03,330 --> 00:52:06,875 and it's this guy Ernesto Duarte, but he died in Spain. 482 00:52:07,042 --> 00:52:09,002 You always have to ask... 483 00:52:09,169 --> 00:52:11,963 "Who wrote it, and are they still living?" 484 00:52:12,130 --> 00:52:15,133 In case they may be here or they come down, you know? 485 00:52:15,300 --> 00:52:18,345 Get 'em to come down. More people have died... 486 00:52:18,512 --> 00:52:20,680 but so many are left... 487 00:52:20,847 --> 00:52:24,142 so we always want to try to find those people. 488 00:52:24,309 --> 00:52:27,270 They might be down the street. They might be here. Who knows? 489 00:52:27,437 --> 00:52:30,607 Might be around the corner. You never know. 490 00:52:30,774 --> 00:52:34,903 So it's 1998. We have to do the best we can. 491 00:52:35,070 --> 00:52:38,114 So we have Ibrahim in 1998. We're very lucky. 492 00:52:38,281 --> 00:52:41,284 [ Woman Translates In Spanish] 493 00:52:45,372 --> 00:52:48,250 - Thank you. - Very, very lucky. 494 00:52:48,416 --> 00:52:52,838 I just don't want to die ‒ at least not right now. 495 00:52:53,004 --> 00:52:56,716 The man up there and my wife over there... 496 00:52:56,883 --> 00:53:01,805 ought to grant me a bit more time to enjoy all this. 497 00:53:04,057 --> 00:53:08,186 Because sometimes you don't get time. 498 00:53:09,604 --> 00:53:11,273 [Cooder] That's right. 499 00:53:11,439 --> 00:53:14,693 [ Compay Segundo]As long as I have blood in my veins... 500 00:53:14,860 --> 00:53:16,862 I'm going to love women. 501 00:53:17,279 --> 00:53:19,364 Because in life... 502 00:53:19,531 --> 00:53:23,451 women, flowers, and romance... 503 00:53:23,618 --> 00:53:25,245 are all so lovely. 504 00:53:25,412 --> 00:53:29,374 One night of romance is priceless! 505 00:53:29,708 --> 00:53:33,461 It's priceless. And I haven't forgotten how yet. 506 00:53:33,628 --> 00:53:35,714 I'm 90 years old... 507 00:53:35,881 --> 00:53:38,049 and I have five children. 508 00:53:38,216 --> 00:53:41,887 You met Salvador and Basilio. 509 00:53:42,053 --> 00:53:44,014 Salvador is the youngest. 510 00:53:44,180 --> 00:53:46,057 I have five... 511 00:53:46,224 --> 00:53:49,728 but I'm working on the sixth. 512 00:53:52,856 --> 00:53:54,816 I want one more. 513 00:54:01,573 --> 00:54:03,033 Well... 514 00:54:03,909 --> 00:54:05,869 see you some other time. 515 00:54:25,180 --> 00:54:28,224 [Ferrer] One afternoon, out of the blue... 516 00:54:29,517 --> 00:54:33,563 Juan de Marcos knocked at my door. 517 00:54:34,064 --> 00:54:37,025 I was polishing some shoes. 518 00:54:37,192 --> 00:54:40,278 He said, "What are you doing?" 519 00:54:40,445 --> 00:54:43,573 I said, "Just shining my shoes." 520 00:54:43,740 --> 00:54:47,619 "I've been looking for you. Come with me." 521 00:54:47,786 --> 00:54:51,122 "No, I don't want to sing anymore, " I said. 522 00:54:51,289 --> 00:54:54,626 But he said, "Man, I need your voice." 523 00:54:54,793 --> 00:54:59,589 So I asked him, "When? Tomorrow?" 524 00:54:59,923 --> 00:55:02,842 "No, right now." "At least let me shower." 525 00:55:03,009 --> 00:55:05,470 "No, right now." 526 00:55:05,637 --> 00:55:08,640 He barely gave me time to wash my face... 527 00:55:08,807 --> 00:55:12,769 and wipe off a little shoe polish. 528 00:55:12,936 --> 00:55:17,315 So we came here to the EGREM studios... 529 00:55:17,482 --> 00:55:21,361 where I found Eliades Ochoa. 530 00:55:22,153 --> 00:55:24,531 He was here... 531 00:55:24,864 --> 00:55:28,827 with Compay Segundo and the rest. 532 00:55:29,327 --> 00:55:31,955 Rubén was at the piano. 533 00:55:32,539 --> 00:55:34,457 When Rubén saw me... 534 00:55:34,624 --> 00:55:37,002 he began playing... 535 00:55:37,168 --> 00:55:40,422 ♪♪ [ Vocalizing Melody ] 536 00:55:40,588 --> 00:55:44,801 ...a number I'd made very popular here in Cuba. 537 00:55:44,968 --> 00:55:49,222 It's called "Candela," by Faustino Oramas, "El Guayabero." 538 00:55:49,597 --> 00:55:53,685 ♪ There goes a dancing rat having a great old time ♪ 539 00:55:53,852 --> 00:55:57,439 ♪ While a mouse drums out a rhythm to brighten up the day ♪ 540 00:55:57,605 --> 00:56:01,067 ♪ A cat comes along too so elegant and affable ♪ 541 00:56:01,234 --> 00:56:04,946 ♪ "Good evening, friend" he says to the drummer ♪ 542 00:56:05,405 --> 00:56:07,866 So I started singing the number. 543 00:56:08,033 --> 00:56:13,121 And Ry was in the booth. It seems he had his eye on me. 544 00:56:15,206 --> 00:56:17,125 He heard me... 545 00:56:17,292 --> 00:56:20,837 and decided to record the song. 546 00:56:21,921 --> 00:56:25,842 I thought, "Okay, no problem." So we recorded it. 547 00:56:26,217 --> 00:56:29,054 That's when I got back to doing my thing. 548 00:56:32,307 --> 00:56:36,770 ♪ Fire, fire! I'm burning up! ♪ 549 00:56:42,108 --> 00:56:47,238 ♪ Faustino Oramas and friends, put this fire out for me! ♪ 550 00:56:50,408 --> 00:56:56,915 ♪ Just dial seven zeros and the firemen will be right here ♪ 551 00:57:06,341 --> 00:57:08,343 ♪♪[Fades] 552 00:57:09,761 --> 00:57:11,763 ♪♪[Bass] 553 00:58:00,562 --> 00:58:03,398 My name is Orlando López, "Cachaíto." 554 00:58:03,606 --> 00:58:08,528 I'd like to tell you a bit about how I became a musician. 555 00:58:08,820 --> 00:58:11,990 I started playing when I was nine. 556 00:58:12,157 --> 00:58:16,911 At 11 years old, I joined an orchestra led by my aunt, Coralia López. 557 00:58:17,078 --> 00:58:22,000 My uncle and my great-grandfather were both bassists. 558 00:58:22,167 --> 00:58:25,170 I was going to study violin... 559 00:58:25,336 --> 00:58:29,007 but my grandfather said, "No, it has to be bass." 560 00:58:29,465 --> 00:58:31,509 It was one of those things. 561 00:58:31,676 --> 00:58:34,220 I was a little afraid of the bass... 562 00:58:34,387 --> 00:58:38,850 but it just took getting familiar with it. 563 00:58:40,143 --> 00:58:46,191 My way of playing is to get very focused. 564 00:58:47,108 --> 00:58:49,194 I like music so much. 565 00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:54,365 I've studied classical music, every genre. 566 00:58:54,699 --> 00:58:59,204 And I feel... I don't know. 567 00:58:59,996 --> 00:59:03,875 For me playing music is like a game. 568 00:59:04,626 --> 00:59:07,170 I played in lots of orchestras back then... 569 00:59:07,420 --> 00:59:12,717 and that's how I met Rubén. 570 00:59:13,134 --> 00:59:16,804 I'd played with a lot of pianists, but never Rubén. 571 00:59:16,971 --> 00:59:20,433 Now it turns out we make a great pair. 572 00:59:21,893 --> 00:59:25,355 My great strength is that I have a good ear. 573 00:59:25,647 --> 00:59:28,691 I can also sight-read very quickly. 574 00:59:29,067 --> 00:59:34,280 So before he plays a note, I already have that note in mind. 575 01:00:47,687 --> 01:00:49,689 [ Audience Applauding ] 576 01:00:53,151 --> 01:00:55,236 Chanchullo! 577 01:01:00,950 --> 01:01:03,995 ♪ Chanchullo! Let's dance! ♪ 578 01:01:04,454 --> 01:01:07,457 ♪ Chanchullo! Let's have a good time! ♪ 579 01:01:07,623 --> 01:01:11,002 ♪ Chanchullo! Let's dance! ♪ 580 01:01:11,169 --> 01:01:13,671 ♪ Chanchullo! Let's have a good time! ♪ 581 01:01:13,838 --> 01:01:15,548 Amadito Valdés! 582 01:01:18,843 --> 01:01:20,845 He's a wild man! 583 01:02:08,017 --> 01:02:09,560 Go! 584 01:02:22,240 --> 01:02:24,242 [Audience Applauding] 585 01:02:27,036 --> 01:02:28,746 [Ferrer] Chanchullo! 586 01:02:32,917 --> 01:02:35,253 - ♪♪[Ends] - [Audience Applauding] 587 01:02:35,420 --> 01:02:39,507 My name's Amadito Valdés. I'm a percussionist. 588 01:02:40,425 --> 01:02:44,470 I use my father's name, since he was my main motivation... 589 01:02:45,138 --> 01:02:47,557 in going down this path. 590 01:02:47,723 --> 01:02:49,934 In the field of percussion... 591 01:02:50,101 --> 01:02:53,146 the timbal is a very limited instrument. 592 01:02:53,729 --> 01:03:00,319 So anyone who plays it must be aware of that... 593 01:03:00,611 --> 01:03:03,781 and really use their imagination... 594 01:03:03,948 --> 01:03:07,535 with this instrument that's so limited... 595 01:03:07,702 --> 01:03:11,372 in its physical design, you might say. 596 01:03:11,539 --> 01:03:13,791 It's a very modest instrument... 597 01:03:13,958 --> 01:03:18,004 but one that lends a lovely color... 598 01:03:18,671 --> 01:03:20,673 to popular dance music. 599 01:03:28,139 --> 01:03:30,141 ♪♪[ Trumpet] 600 01:03:49,327 --> 01:03:51,871 My name is Manuel Mirabal Vázquez... 601 01:03:52,038 --> 01:03:54,373 better known as "El Guajiro." 602 01:03:54,540 --> 01:03:56,834 I began playing at age 18... 603 01:03:57,001 --> 01:04:00,838 so I've been playing trumpet for 47years. 604 01:04:01,005 --> 01:04:03,549 It's been quite an experience playing with all these guys. 605 01:04:03,716 --> 01:04:05,801 If it hadn't been for Buena Vista ‒ 606 01:04:05,968 --> 01:04:09,222 All these folks were basically forgotten. 607 01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:13,017 If it weren't for Buena Vista, no one would remember Ibrahim... 608 01:04:13,184 --> 01:04:16,020 or Rubén, or Compay Segundo. 609 01:04:16,187 --> 01:04:20,858 To see Compay at 90 playing the tres so well... 610 01:04:21,025 --> 01:04:23,486 and Rubén playing the piano so well ‒ 611 01:04:23,653 --> 01:04:27,198 I think that's a key to the success... 612 01:04:27,365 --> 01:04:31,536 of these recordings by these groups. 613 01:04:35,998 --> 01:04:40,169 ♪ Fire, fire! I'm burning up! ♪ 614 01:04:58,938 --> 01:05:00,898 [Audience Applauding] 615 01:05:04,485 --> 01:05:08,864 ♪ Fire, fire! I'm burning up! ♪ 616 01:05:09,031 --> 01:05:10,575 Barbarito! 617 01:05:38,853 --> 01:05:41,439 My name is Bárbaro Alberto Torres Delgado. 618 01:05:41,606 --> 01:05:45,443 In musical circles I'm known as "Barbarito Torres." 619 01:05:51,073 --> 01:05:54,118 I've played the music of the Cuban countryside... 620 01:05:54,285 --> 01:05:56,704 since I was ten years old. 621 01:05:57,246 --> 01:06:01,125 I play the lute, which is Arabic in origin. 622 01:06:02,293 --> 01:06:04,795 The Moors took it to Spain... 623 01:06:04,962 --> 01:06:07,423 where it underwent its first metamorphosis. 624 01:06:07,590 --> 01:06:10,551 There they made a lute with a longer neck... 625 01:06:10,718 --> 01:06:13,971 a little larger than the one used here. 626 01:06:14,138 --> 01:06:17,433 Medieval troubadours brought it to Cuba... 627 01:06:17,600 --> 01:06:20,853 where it underwent its second metamorphosis. 628 01:06:21,020 --> 01:06:25,941 That resulted in the Cuban lute, the one I play. 629 01:06:27,485 --> 01:06:29,487 ♪♪[Lute] 630 01:07:04,271 --> 01:07:07,983 ♪ Tula's bedroom has gone up in flames ♪ 631 01:07:08,150 --> 01:07:12,697 ♪ She fell asleep and didn't put out the candle ♪ 632 01:07:13,030 --> 01:07:14,990 ♪ Get the firemen here quick ♪ 633 01:07:15,449 --> 01:07:17,785 ♪ And bring lots of hoses ♪ 634 01:07:17,952 --> 01:07:22,707 ♪ Tula's bedroom has gone up in flames ♪ 635 01:07:22,873 --> 01:07:26,961 ♪ Tula's bedroom has gone up in flames ♪ 636 01:07:27,128 --> 01:07:32,383 ♪ She fell asleep and didn't put out the candle ♪ 637 01:07:32,550 --> 01:07:34,552 ♪♪[Singing Continues] 638 01:07:42,560 --> 01:07:47,064 ♪ Tula's bedroom has gone up in flames ♪ 639 01:07:47,231 --> 01:07:51,694 ♪ She fell asleep and didn't put out the candle ♪ 640 01:07:51,861 --> 01:07:56,407 ♪ Tell Compay to hurry and bring his hose ♪ 641 01:07:56,907 --> 01:08:01,746 ♪ Tula's bedroom has gone up in flames ♪ 642 01:08:01,912 --> 01:08:06,083 ♪ Tula's bedroom has gone up in flames ♪ 643 01:08:06,250 --> 01:08:10,504 ♪ She fell asleep and didn't put out the candle ♪ 644 01:08:10,671 --> 01:08:14,341 ♪♪ [ Vocalizing ] 645 01:08:20,639 --> 01:08:25,436 ♪ Tula's bedroom has gone up in flames ♪ 646 01:08:25,603 --> 01:08:30,065 ♪ She fell asleep and didn't put out the candle ♪ 647 01:08:40,117 --> 01:08:44,789 ♪ Tula's bedroom has gone up in flames ♪ 648 01:08:44,955 --> 01:08:49,043 ♪ She fell asleep and didn't put out the candle ♪ 649 01:08:49,210 --> 01:08:53,631 Ladies and gentlemen, from Matanzas, Cuba: Barbarito Torres. 650 01:08:54,465 --> 01:08:56,884 Barbarito's on the loose! 651 01:08:58,552 --> 01:09:00,971 - He's crazy! - [ Audience Applauding ] 652 01:09:01,138 --> 01:09:02,932 Lock him away! 653 01:09:11,649 --> 01:09:13,651 [Audience Cheering] 654 01:09:35,422 --> 01:09:37,967 [Audience Applauding] 655 01:09:45,599 --> 01:09:49,979 ♪ Tula's bedroom has gone up in flames ♪ 656 01:09:50,145 --> 01:09:54,316 ♪ She fell asleep and didn't put out the candle ♪ 657 01:09:54,483 --> 01:09:56,819 ♪ Fire, fire! ♪ 658 01:09:56,986 --> 01:09:59,446 ♪ I'm burning up! ♪ 659 01:09:59,613 --> 01:10:04,076 ♪ Tula's bedroom has gone up in flames ♪ 660 01:10:04,243 --> 01:10:08,539 ♪ Tula's bedroom has gone up in flames ♪ 661 01:10:08,706 --> 01:10:11,375 ♪ She fell asleep ♪ 662 01:10:16,839 --> 01:10:21,010 ♪ And didn't put out ♪ 663 01:10:26,932 --> 01:10:33,939 ♪ The candle ♪ 664 01:10:34,106 --> 01:10:36,734 - ♪♪[Ends] - [Audience Applauding] 665 01:10:44,700 --> 01:10:46,869 [Man] I'm Pío Leyva... 666 01:10:47,620 --> 01:10:49,872 "the Cuban highlander." 667 01:10:51,790 --> 01:10:54,752 [Man #2] I'm Manuel Licea, "Puntillita." 668 01:11:01,508 --> 01:11:03,594 I'll trounce you good! 669 01:11:04,720 --> 01:11:06,221 A blank! 670 01:11:08,933 --> 01:11:10,517 I win! 671 01:11:10,976 --> 01:11:13,145 I'm the greatest! 672 01:11:13,771 --> 01:11:18,484 I tell you, you can't beat me, Puntillita. 673 01:11:19,193 --> 01:11:21,487 At dominoes, I'm number one. 674 01:11:22,112 --> 01:11:26,533 You may be the best singer, but at dominoes, I'm the best. 675 01:11:27,493 --> 01:11:31,121 - Shall we go join them? - Wait till they call us. 676 01:11:31,288 --> 01:11:33,707 [Man] Puntillita! Pío! Come on! 677 01:11:33,874 --> 01:11:35,626 Jeez! 678 01:11:35,793 --> 01:11:39,755 Just when I'm thrashing this guy, I have to go to the studio! 679 01:11:39,922 --> 01:11:44,593 - It's 3-2. - We'll continue this later. 680 01:11:45,469 --> 01:11:48,514 Let's see how the recording's going. 681 01:11:50,474 --> 01:11:53,644 - You can't play with me. - Give me a chance! 682 01:11:53,811 --> 01:11:57,398 - What chance! - Don't get ugly about it. 683 01:11:59,108 --> 01:12:01,819 [Man ] I'm particularly happy... 684 01:12:01,986 --> 01:12:07,491 to have been involved in coordinating this project. 685 01:12:07,658 --> 01:12:12,329 It's brought together all the great names in Cuban music... 686 01:12:12,496 --> 01:12:15,416 who sadly had been practically forgotten here. 687 01:12:15,582 --> 01:12:19,420 People like Rubén González, whom I consider... 688 01:12:19,586 --> 01:12:23,424 one of the three greatest son piano players of all time. 689 01:12:23,590 --> 01:12:27,928 Ibrahim Ferrer, one of the greatest Cuban singers ever... 690 01:12:28,095 --> 01:12:33,767 who had sadly also been forgotten for over ten years. 691 01:12:34,351 --> 01:12:37,521 And other people, like Puntillita, Pío Leyva... 692 01:12:37,688 --> 01:12:39,732 Compay Segundo, Eliades Ochoa. 693 01:12:40,691 --> 01:12:44,445 As an artistic undertaking... 694 01:12:44,611 --> 01:12:47,364 this album will have an enormous impact on Cuban music. 695 01:12:47,531 --> 01:12:50,117 One, two, one, two, three. 696 01:12:50,534 --> 01:12:54,246 ♪ The dancers are coming ♪ 697 01:12:55,039 --> 01:13:01,045 ♪ And the roads are jammed ♪ 698 01:13:09,428 --> 01:13:11,430 ♪♪[Singing Continues] 699 01:13:25,569 --> 01:13:28,739 Perfect. Perfecto. Bueno. 700 01:13:31,116 --> 01:13:33,410 Barbarito! 701 01:13:33,577 --> 01:13:34,787 ♪♪ [ Sings Note ] 702 01:13:34,953 --> 01:13:36,747 ♪♪ [ Plays Same Note ] 703 01:13:45,589 --> 01:13:48,175 Recording, please. 704 01:13:51,762 --> 01:13:58,602 ♪ There's a party at the cabin of Don Ramón ♪ 705 01:13:59,603 --> 01:14:06,985 ♪ There's a party at the cabin of Don Ramón ♪ 706 01:14:07,152 --> 01:14:10,489 ♪ The pig is on the spit ♪ 707 01:14:10,989 --> 01:14:14,076 ♪ The locals are on their way ♪ 708 01:14:14,827 --> 01:14:18,330 ♪ They're gonna bring the house down ♪ 709 01:14:18,789 --> 01:14:21,750 ♪ For Don Ramón's birthday ♪ 710 01:14:22,376 --> 01:14:25,587 ♪ The dancers are coming ♪ 711 01:14:26,338 --> 01:14:29,925 ♪ And the roads are jammed ♪ 712 01:14:30,092 --> 01:14:33,971 ♪ The dancers are coming ♪ 713 01:14:34,138 --> 01:14:37,850 ♪ And the roads are jammed ♪ 714 01:14:38,016 --> 01:14:41,728 ♪ The bongos the tiple, and the güiro ♪ 715 01:14:41,895 --> 01:14:44,815 ♪ All play nonstop ♪ 716 01:14:45,816 --> 01:14:49,403 ♪ The bongos the tiple, and the güiro ♪ 717 01:14:49,570 --> 01:14:52,823 ♪ All play nonstop ♪ 718 01:14:53,407 --> 01:14:57,202 ♪ Because that's how these country folk are ♪ 719 01:14:57,369 --> 01:15:00,706 ♪ They have no particular time to call it a day ♪ 720 01:15:01,165 --> 01:15:04,585 ♪ It's been a custom in the countryside ♪ 721 01:15:05,002 --> 01:15:08,255 ♪ Since colonial times ♪ 722 01:15:08,422 --> 01:15:12,426 ♪ The dancers are coming ♪ 723 01:15:12,593 --> 01:15:16,180 ♪And the roads are jammed ♪ 724 01:15:16,346 --> 01:15:21,810 ♪ The dancers are coming and the roads ‒♪ 725 01:15:21,977 --> 01:15:24,563 [Joachim Cooder] For what I do ‒percussion ‒ 726 01:15:24,730 --> 01:15:27,524 Cuba is the mecca. 727 01:15:28,942 --> 01:15:33,030 Here there's nothing but pure... 728 01:15:33,197 --> 01:15:35,449 musical energy. 729 01:15:36,617 --> 01:15:40,537 The udu drum, which makes the "goomp, goomp" sound ‒ 730 01:15:40,704 --> 01:15:43,874 they all got a big kick out of it last time... 731 01:15:44,041 --> 01:15:45,959 for Buena Vista Social Club. 732 01:15:46,126 --> 01:15:49,838 They all would laugh and they'd see me ‒ "Ah, goomp, goomp." 733 01:15:50,005 --> 01:15:52,674 I became the guy with the funny sounds. 734 01:15:53,717 --> 01:15:57,054 It's not anything obvious, 'cause it fills a pocket... 735 01:15:57,221 --> 01:16:00,390 that so much of the percussion is going around ‒ 736 01:16:00,557 --> 01:16:02,559 the "one" of each bar ‒ 737 01:16:02,726 --> 01:16:04,728 that they usually leave out. 738 01:16:04,895 --> 01:16:08,440 It adds to what I know Ry kind of has in mind ‒ 739 01:16:08,607 --> 01:16:11,235 a strange departure... 740 01:16:11,401 --> 01:16:14,613 in a bizarre band that never existed... 741 01:16:14,780 --> 01:16:17,074 back in the '60s or something. 742 01:16:18,784 --> 01:16:22,579 Puntillita took sort of an interest in teaching me stuff... 743 01:16:22,746 --> 01:16:25,207 and everyone's a percussionist. 744 01:16:25,374 --> 01:16:27,960 And it's almost those who aren't percussionists... 745 01:16:28,126 --> 01:16:30,254 that are the best percussionists. 746 01:16:30,420 --> 01:16:33,131 They're the ones who have that light touch... 747 01:16:33,298 --> 01:16:35,425 that's so hard to find. 748 01:16:36,635 --> 01:16:40,305 There's no kind of learning like the kind of learning... 749 01:16:40,472 --> 01:16:42,641 you get from the guys here. 750 01:16:42,808 --> 01:16:44,601 It's so subtle and quiet... 751 01:16:44,768 --> 01:16:47,229 and so powerful at the same time. 752 01:16:47,396 --> 01:16:49,398 ♪♪[Ballad] 753 01:16:51,024 --> 01:16:56,571 [Ferrer]♪ Your kisses rained down in a tempest of love ♪ 754 01:16:57,030 --> 01:17:01,910 ♪An unquenchable desire ♪ 755 01:17:02,077 --> 01:17:04,204 ♪ To join our lives in love ♪ 756 01:17:04,371 --> 01:17:06,790 ♪ Yet in spite of it all ♪ 757 01:17:07,207 --> 01:17:10,711 ♪ Your departure was my downfall ♪ 758 01:17:12,754 --> 01:17:15,757 ♪And put an end to all my dreams ♪ 759 01:17:19,469 --> 01:17:23,890 ♪ And they won't be revived ♪ 760 01:17:25,934 --> 01:17:28,687 ♪ Unless that day returns ♪ 761 01:17:30,147 --> 01:17:32,774 ♪ That day ♪ 762 01:17:32,941 --> 01:17:38,822 ♪ Of our last encounter ♪ 763 01:17:39,197 --> 01:17:41,074 ♪ Of love ♪ 764 01:17:59,760 --> 01:18:01,928 ♪♪[ Continues] 765 01:18:39,591 --> 01:18:41,843 [Ry Cooder] How did this all get started? 766 01:18:44,721 --> 01:18:47,724 My friend Nick Gold of World Circuit Records in London... 767 01:18:47,891 --> 01:18:51,728 called me up and asked if I'd join him in Cuba... 768 01:18:51,895 --> 01:18:55,399 make a record of Cuban music with some campesino musicians... 769 01:18:55,565 --> 01:18:58,193 and some West African players... 770 01:18:58,360 --> 01:19:01,530 which sounded like a great idea that had never been tried. 771 01:19:01,696 --> 01:19:03,490 I said, "Sure." 772 01:19:03,657 --> 01:19:06,493 My wife and I had been in Havana in the '70s... 773 01:19:06,660 --> 01:19:09,246 kind of poking around and searching around... 774 01:19:09,413 --> 01:19:12,916 for this son music from a tape a friend had given us. 775 01:19:13,083 --> 01:19:15,419 It had some of the most incredible playing... 776 01:19:15,585 --> 01:19:17,587 and some of the most beautiful songs. 777 01:19:17,754 --> 01:19:19,589 I had never heard anything like it. 778 01:19:19,756 --> 01:19:22,551 So we got on a boat and went down there... 779 01:19:22,717 --> 01:19:24,636 and snuck around and searched around... 780 01:19:24,803 --> 01:19:27,389 and actually got to hear some good old-timers... 781 01:19:27,556 --> 01:19:30,517 but I didn't know what to do about it in those days. 782 01:19:30,684 --> 01:19:34,938 I didn't know how to proceed or anything, so we came back home. 783 01:19:35,105 --> 01:19:37,107 Been thinking about it ever since. 784 01:19:37,274 --> 01:19:39,776 So we got down this time... 785 01:19:39,943 --> 01:19:42,446 and Nick picked us up at the airport and said... 786 01:19:42,612 --> 01:19:44,364 "The Africans couldn't make it. 787 01:19:44,531 --> 01:19:48,118 They got hung up in Paris. What are we going to do here?" 788 01:19:48,285 --> 01:19:52,414 So we figured we'd just go ahead with whoever we could find. 789 01:19:52,581 --> 01:19:54,458 And we started asking around... 790 01:19:54,624 --> 01:19:56,918 and Juan de Marcos helped us out... 791 01:19:57,085 --> 01:20:00,005 and pretty soon we had a room full of people... 792 01:20:00,172 --> 01:20:03,467 including Compay Segundo and Eliades Ochoa... 793 01:20:03,633 --> 01:20:06,595 Ibrahim Ferrer, Amadito Valdés... 794 01:20:06,761 --> 01:20:08,680 Pío Leyva, Puntillita... 795 01:20:08,847 --> 01:20:11,016 and Rubén, Cachao. 796 01:20:11,183 --> 01:20:14,060 And Barbarito Torres, who's the laúd player. 797 01:20:14,227 --> 01:20:18,023 Turned out it was him on the tape I'd had all these years... 798 01:20:18,190 --> 01:20:20,859 that lured me down there in the first place. 799 01:20:21,026 --> 01:20:23,778 These are people I'd heard on records over the years. 800 01:20:23,945 --> 01:20:26,156 Had no idea if they were living or dead. 801 01:20:26,323 --> 01:20:28,909 Rubén González hadn't even had a piano in ten years. 802 01:20:29,075 --> 01:20:32,662 Hadn't really been playing. He told us he had arthritis and couldn't play. 803 01:20:32,829 --> 01:20:34,748 Of course, that wasn't true. 804 01:20:34,915 --> 01:20:39,794 This is an example of the luck and good fortune you have to have ‒ 805 01:20:39,961 --> 01:20:43,048 to find out that so many of these people... 806 01:20:43,215 --> 01:20:46,051 were still alive and well, although forgotten... 807 01:20:46,218 --> 01:20:49,471 happy to play, very generous and openhearted... 808 01:20:49,638 --> 01:20:52,516 with their talent and their knowledge. 809 01:20:53,683 --> 01:20:57,687 It was a fantastic experience. It was the kind of thing I feel... 810 01:20:58,813 --> 01:21:02,067 that might be fair to say I've trained for my whole life. 811 01:21:02,234 --> 01:21:05,153 It's something very rare. Like I tell Joachim... 812 01:21:05,320 --> 01:21:08,532 "This might just happen to you once in your life." 813 01:21:12,536 --> 01:21:14,788 Flying back to Los Angeles, I started thinking... 814 01:21:14,955 --> 01:21:17,916 what a great thing it'd be to get everybody together... 815 01:21:18,083 --> 01:21:19,751 and do a show someplace. 816 01:21:19,918 --> 01:21:22,754 By that time, the record had gotten so popular... 817 01:21:22,921 --> 01:21:25,507 that these guys were all really busy. 818 01:21:25,674 --> 01:21:28,552 The only place we could get everybody together was Amsterdam... 819 01:21:28,718 --> 01:21:31,388 at the Carré Theater ‒ two nights in April. 820 01:21:33,348 --> 01:21:37,060 Everybody knows Carnegie Hall's the place to go. 821 01:21:37,227 --> 01:21:40,313 The Cubans kept asking me, "When are we going to New York? 822 01:21:40,480 --> 01:21:42,232 When are we going to Carnegie Hall?" 823 01:21:42,399 --> 01:21:44,484 I actually never thought it'd happen. 824 01:21:44,651 --> 01:21:48,071 But a lot of people worked hard and tried really hard. 825 01:21:49,573 --> 01:21:52,075 And on July 1, we were there. 826 01:21:54,661 --> 01:21:56,663 ♪♪[Salsa] 827 01:22:06,923 --> 01:22:10,552 ♪ I want to dance at the beach ♪ 828 01:22:10,719 --> 01:22:13,722 ♪ Because the African's asked me out on a spree ♪ 829 01:22:23,231 --> 01:22:25,191 [ No Audible Dialogue ] 830 01:22:29,654 --> 01:22:33,033 ♪ On the beach I walk along ♪ 831 01:22:33,491 --> 01:22:37,287 ♪ Omara helps me with a song ♪ 832 01:22:50,967 --> 01:22:52,969 [Ry Cooder] It was a great night. 833 01:22:54,012 --> 01:22:57,223 They loved it. I loved it. Everybody just went crazy. 834 01:22:58,642 --> 01:23:03,063 But that would be the last show for the Buena Vista Social Club. 835 01:23:26,586 --> 01:23:29,089 ♪ Let me hear you play it ♪ 836 01:23:30,090 --> 01:23:32,300 ♪♪ [ Repeating Refrain ] 837 01:24:03,373 --> 01:24:06,042 ♪ Whenever I ask you ♪ 838 01:24:06,251 --> 01:24:09,504 ♪ How, when, and where ♪ 839 01:24:10,088 --> 01:24:13,091 ♪ You always answer ♪ 840 01:24:13,800 --> 01:24:16,845 ♪ "Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps" ♪ 841 01:24:17,512 --> 01:24:20,348 ♪ "Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps" ♪ 842 01:24:21,516 --> 01:24:28,273 ♪ "Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps" ♪ 843 01:24:31,901 --> 01:24:33,945 [Audience Applauding] 844 01:24:53,381 --> 01:24:55,467 [ No Audible Dialogue ] 845 01:25:00,764 --> 01:25:02,682 [People Chattering] 846 01:25:04,726 --> 01:25:06,728 [ No Audible Dialogue ] 847 01:25:11,900 --> 01:25:14,611 Look at that beautiful building! 848 01:25:14,986 --> 01:25:17,489 - A marvel. - It's enormous! 849 01:25:17,655 --> 01:25:19,449 It's extraordinary. 850 01:25:19,616 --> 01:25:25,789 - These avenues are so beautiful. - Just imagine! 851 01:25:26,873 --> 01:25:28,917 This is really great. 852 01:25:29,667 --> 01:25:31,795 Really beautiful. 853 01:25:31,961 --> 01:25:34,130 [ No Audible Dialogue ] 854 01:25:39,010 --> 01:25:41,554 Are you calling Cuba? 855 01:25:51,272 --> 01:25:55,151 There's so much hustle and bustle. 856 01:25:57,070 --> 01:26:00,782 Look at the gun that guy has. 857 01:26:04,077 --> 01:26:06,955 - Don't shoot! - Look there. 858 01:26:07,163 --> 01:26:10,083 All the greats are there. 859 01:26:10,250 --> 01:26:11,835 All the greats. 860 01:26:12,001 --> 01:26:14,254 There's Charlie Chaplin. 861 01:26:15,463 --> 01:26:19,717 - Remember Laurel and Hardy? - The fat guy and the skinny guy! 862 01:26:20,093 --> 01:26:22,095 And look here. 863 01:26:22,262 --> 01:26:26,683 One of the most famous trumpet players. 864 01:26:27,684 --> 01:26:29,561 Who's this guy? 865 01:26:30,228 --> 01:26:33,022 Who was the greatest trumpet player ever? 866 01:26:33,189 --> 01:26:37,277 The one who used to play out under the stars... 867 01:26:37,443 --> 01:26:42,699 and played the highest note ever at that time. 868 01:26:43,950 --> 01:26:46,286 This guy was blind, remember? 869 01:26:46,452 --> 01:26:49,873 A great piano player. And look who else is here. 870 01:26:50,039 --> 01:26:51,916 It says right here. 871 01:26:56,713 --> 01:26:59,173 They're all here. 872 01:27:19,986 --> 01:27:24,365 - Who's the one in the middle? - With the saxophone? 873 01:27:24,532 --> 01:27:26,701 No, next to him. 874 01:27:27,368 --> 01:27:29,871 Let's see if I can remember. 875 01:27:30,413 --> 01:27:33,541 I can't remember... 876 01:27:33,708 --> 01:27:36,586 but he was one of the great leaders. 877 01:27:42,175 --> 01:27:45,428 This is the life! 878 01:27:46,429 --> 01:27:50,266 [ Ochoa] This is so beautiful! You can see everything. 879 01:27:50,433 --> 01:27:53,728 [ González] My plane flew in right along there. 880 01:27:53,895 --> 01:27:56,564 There's a plane taking off now. 881 01:27:57,815 --> 01:28:01,027 So they must fly in from this direction. 882 01:28:02,445 --> 01:28:06,366 - But not right over this building. - Let's go. 883 01:28:06,532 --> 01:28:07,951 [Audience Applauding] 884 01:28:08,117 --> 01:28:10,286 [Man On P.A. ] Ladies and gentlemen, Rubén González! 885 01:28:26,970 --> 01:28:28,972 [ No Audible Dialogue ] 886 01:28:44,988 --> 01:28:46,990 [ González] Where's the Statue of Liberty? 887 01:28:47,156 --> 01:28:48,700 [ Ochoa] Over there. 888 01:28:48,866 --> 01:28:52,328 With the big point on top. 889 01:28:53,037 --> 01:28:57,041 Near those two towers there. You saw it when we came in yesterday. 890 01:28:57,208 --> 01:29:01,170 - Near that tower over there? - No, this one over here. 891 01:29:01,462 --> 01:29:03,756 That can't be the statue. 892 01:29:03,923 --> 01:29:07,218 It's all by itself, on the tip of an island. 893 01:29:07,427 --> 01:29:11,305 It's like that tiny one down there, but much bigger. 894 01:29:13,141 --> 01:29:17,854 I thought the Statue of Liberty had a crown. 895 01:29:19,022 --> 01:29:21,774 You can't make out the crown from here. 896 01:29:21,941 --> 01:29:24,944 You'd have to look through the viewer. 897 01:29:25,111 --> 01:29:28,156 You can't see the crown from here. 898 01:29:28,322 --> 01:29:30,825 Yeah, you'd have to get closer. 899 01:29:31,284 --> 01:29:33,619 But we know it's in that direction. 900 01:29:33,786 --> 01:29:35,705 That we do know. 901 01:30:45,274 --> 01:30:47,485 Let's move into the sun. 902 01:30:47,777 --> 01:30:50,655 You want sun? Let's go. 903 01:30:53,241 --> 01:30:57,453 - Have you ever been here before? - Yes, many years ago. 904 01:30:57,620 --> 01:30:59,622 - Up here? - Up here? 905 01:30:59,789 --> 01:31:02,500 - Who were you with? - No, not up here. 906 01:31:02,667 --> 01:31:07,171 I went to the statue, and we looked down ‒ 907 01:31:07,338 --> 01:31:09,173 Who'd you go with? 908 01:31:09,340 --> 01:31:11,551 Some tourists. 909 01:31:11,717 --> 01:31:15,721 - That was in the 1920s, you said? - I don't know the year. 910 01:31:15,972 --> 01:31:20,101 I was about 30, and I'm 80 now. 911 01:31:37,743 --> 01:31:39,745 [Audience Applauding] 912 01:32:02,852 --> 01:32:04,854 - ♪♪ [ Ends ] - [Audience Applauding] 913 01:32:31,881 --> 01:32:34,258 ♪♪ [ Piano ] 914 01:32:44,393 --> 01:32:46,395 [Audience Applauding] 915 01:33:52,586 --> 01:33:54,588 [ Indistinct Conversations ] 916 01:33:59,969 --> 01:34:01,971 [ Chattering, Laughing ] 917 01:34:18,070 --> 01:34:21,532 I want you to know this is the first time... 918 01:34:21,824 --> 01:34:24,952 that I find myself in New York, in the U.S. 919 01:34:25,953 --> 01:34:27,788 I've always longed... 920 01:34:28,164 --> 01:34:31,125 to see this city. 921 01:34:31,375 --> 01:34:34,337 I'm not an American, and I can't speak English... 922 01:34:34,503 --> 01:34:40,176 but I think I'll start learning a few words... 923 01:34:40,926 --> 01:34:43,763 so that I can hold my own. 924 01:34:44,805 --> 01:34:46,807 [ Chattering ] 925 01:34:56,442 --> 01:35:01,447 I wish I could bring my wife and a few of my kids to see this. 926 01:35:02,323 --> 01:35:05,493 So they could see how beautiful it is. 927 01:35:08,371 --> 01:35:11,040 This is just beautiful. 928 01:35:11,957 --> 01:35:14,043 Look, Radio City. 929 01:35:14,377 --> 01:35:17,088 At least I'm getting to see it. 930 01:35:25,221 --> 01:35:27,973 I'm so happy to see all this. 931 01:35:28,224 --> 01:35:30,309 I could never have imagined. 932 01:35:55,084 --> 01:35:58,337 It's so beautiful. I'm really happy. 933 01:36:00,256 --> 01:36:03,134 [Ferrer] About two years ago... 934 01:36:03,509 --> 01:36:06,303 I decided to retire. 935 01:36:06,470 --> 01:36:10,266 I didn't want to sing anymore. I was disillusioned. 936 01:36:10,433 --> 01:36:14,186 I'd been through so much. You know how life is. 937 01:36:14,728 --> 01:36:20,359 I thought, "I'm bored of singing. I'm not earning anything." 938 01:36:22,027 --> 01:36:25,865 ♪ I'm burning up! ♪ 939 01:36:28,492 --> 01:36:30,870 ♪ The fire's burning me ♪ 940 01:36:31,036 --> 01:36:35,666 ♪ I want to go on having a good time ♪ 941 01:36:57,855 --> 01:37:01,817 ♪ I want a little something without having to work for it ♪ 942 01:37:02,818 --> 01:37:07,323 ♪ I want a little something without having to work for it ♪ 943 01:37:07,490 --> 01:37:11,827 ♪ It's above the knees and below the waist ♪ 944 01:37:11,994 --> 01:37:14,538 ♪ Mama, I'm goin' crazy ♪ 945 01:37:14,705 --> 01:37:16,790 ♪ The fire's burning me up ♪ 946 01:37:16,957 --> 01:37:19,543 ♪ I want this good time to go on ♪ 947 01:37:19,710 --> 01:37:21,712 ♪ I don't want to be burned up ♪ 948 01:37:21,879 --> 01:37:24,006 ♪ I want to go on living ♪ 949 01:37:24,173 --> 01:37:26,467 ♪ I don't want to die tonight ♪ 950 01:37:26,634 --> 01:37:29,261 ♪ Mama, I'm burning up! ♪ 951 01:37:29,428 --> 01:37:31,430 ♪♪ [ Singing Continues ] 952 01:37:57,957 --> 01:37:59,792 ♪♪ [ Ends ] 953 01:37:59,959 --> 01:38:01,961 [Audience Applauding] 954 01:38:09,635 --> 01:38:11,303 Thank you! 955 01:38:11,804 --> 01:38:14,390 Thank you, family! Thank you, thank you! 956 01:38:15,057 --> 01:38:16,892 Thank you! 957 01:38:26,485 --> 01:38:28,571 [Audience Applauding, Cheering] 958 01:38:32,157 --> 01:38:36,203 [Ferrer] I tell you, my staff is like my mother. 959 01:38:37,705 --> 01:38:40,416 I've carried this staff for 58 years. 960 01:38:41,959 --> 01:38:45,379 That's how long I've had it. Since my mother died. 961 01:39:10,279 --> 01:39:12,948 ♪ From Alto Cedro I head for Marcané ♪ 962 01:39:13,115 --> 01:39:16,744 ♪ I get to Cueto and head for Mayarí♪ 963 01:39:18,829 --> 01:39:22,791 THIS REVOLUTION IS ETERNAL 964 01:39:33,761 --> 01:39:35,763 ♪♪[ Continues] 965 01:40:07,211 --> 01:40:09,672 WE BELIEVE IN DREAMS 966 01:40:18,514 --> 01:40:20,516 ♪♪[ Continues] 967 01:40:30,859 --> 01:40:32,861 [ No Audible Dialogue ] 968 01:40:42,871 --> 01:40:44,707 [Audience Applauding] 969 01:41:16,864 --> 01:41:19,742 ♪ From Alto Cedro I head for Marcané ♪ 970 01:41:19,908 --> 01:41:23,036 ♪ I get to Cueto and head for Mayarí ♪ 971 01:41:54,735 --> 01:41:57,446 Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming tonight. 972 01:41:59,448 --> 01:42:01,408 On the laúd, Bárbaro Torres. 973 01:42:06,371 --> 01:42:08,373 One of the top singers in Cuba... 974 01:42:08,540 --> 01:42:10,918 Manuel Licea, "Puntillita." 975 01:42:12,961 --> 01:42:15,297 Ladies and gentlemen, Compay Segundo! 976 01:42:19,301 --> 01:42:22,971 Señoras y señores, Ibrahim Ferrer! 977 01:42:24,306 --> 01:42:27,309 Ladies and gentlemen, Eliades Ochoa! 978 01:42:30,687 --> 01:42:33,190 Top singer Pío Leyva! 979 01:42:36,318 --> 01:42:39,404 Ladies and gentlemen, Rubén González! 980 01:42:43,367 --> 01:42:47,663 Ladies and gentlemen, Cachao López! 981 01:42:52,793 --> 01:42:55,963 Listen, the lady of the golden voice... 982 01:42:56,129 --> 01:42:58,298 Omara Portuondo! 983 01:43:05,931 --> 01:43:09,226 And playing the timbal, Amadito Valdés. 984 01:43:15,524 --> 01:43:18,777 And Guajiro Mirabal. 985 01:43:22,155 --> 01:43:24,783 Ladies and gentlemen, playing the drums... 986 01:43:24,950 --> 01:43:26,869 Joachim Cooder! 987 01:43:29,121 --> 01:43:31,206 Ladies and gentlemen, my partner... 988 01:43:31,373 --> 01:43:34,042 and my brother, Ry Cooder! 989 01:43:40,173 --> 01:43:42,301 Thank you very much for coming tonight. 990 01:43:47,431 --> 01:43:50,684 Our conductor: my friend, Marcos González. 991 01:43:50,851 --> 01:43:53,020 Juan de Marcos. 992 01:43:53,228 --> 01:43:55,939 ♪ From Alto Cedro I head for Marcané ♪ 993 01:43:56,106 --> 01:43:59,192 ♪ I get to Cueto and head for Mayarí ♪ 994 01:44:05,073 --> 01:44:07,910 ♪ From Alto Cedro I head for Marcané ♪ 995 01:44:08,076 --> 01:44:11,163 ♪ I get to Cueto and head for Mayarí ♪ 996 01:44:17,377 --> 01:44:20,047 ♪ From Alto Cedro I head for Marcané ♪ 997 01:44:20,213 --> 01:44:24,927 ♪ I get to Cueto and head for Mayarí ♪ 998 01:44:34,978 --> 01:44:36,980 ♪♪[Ends] 73806

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