The veteran Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer has died in a Havana hospital, aged 78.
He had recently completed a month-long tour of Europe, and was admitted to hospital with gastroenteritis, his wife Caridad Diaz told the AFP news agency.
He was a master of the son and bolero styles, but was in obscurity when US guitarist Ry Cooder recruited him for the Buena Vista Social Club.
The 1997 record of the same name gave him an international reputation in his seventies, and led to numerous tours.
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So sad...the world of Cuban jazz loses another great singer. Loved the way he sang, totally effortless, yet so full of soul...
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