Buena Vista Social Club trumpeter remembered

The World

The Cuban Music Institute announced today that musician Luis Manuel Mirabal Vázquez has died at age 91. A founding member of the Buena Vista Social Club, Mirabal is being remembered as one of Cuba’s greatest trumpeters, as host Marco Werman explains.

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