I heard this song once but didn't know its name. You have no idea how crazy it drove me. All I could remember were the guitars pieces and what sounds like bongos. No lyrics, no video but pain. It played nonstop inside my head until now..... Now.....I'm free.
Same thing happened to me. It just popped one moment and tortured me the whole day. Fortunately, I could hum the melody and Google helped. I too feel free now.
I lost my documents in Mexico when I was 21 and couldn’t get back to United States for few days. I remember sitting in a hotel balcony in Puerto Vallarta staring at the sunset and this song was playing on the radio. Although I was stressed about my situation I thought to myself “life is beautiful indeed”....
Everytime my father was expecting guests this music was playing all around the house. Instant mood to prepare a party. My father died in 2013 and has been an example how to enjoy life to the fullest. I miss him everyday. I love how this album brings back so much memories of him.
Yo, my dad died in 2012 and im forever thankful to him for showing me this track. Lets pass it on to the young and keep it alive, even if you dont have children yourself, this is worth sharing. big love.
During a business trip to Havana I went out to dinner in the beautifully restored part of the old city...as I ate a group of musicians came along...and asked what Id like to hear..the album had just come out and I said Chan Chan...they smiled and for the next 30 minutes played the album and more....man Id love to relive that night.
This was my father's favourite song, and we used to listen Buena Vista in those happy times when we were together. Today (22.02.2022) is a second anniversary of my father's death, and I am listening this song in his honour. I miss you, and I want you to know that everything I am today is all because of you.
_"I miss you, and I want you to know that everything I am today is all because of you."_ Your dad raised a great person Marina. Keep him in your memories.
I am from Greece and I was learning guitar when I was very young. My teacher wrote me a whole cd and most of the songs were Cuban. I love the music 🇬🇷❤️🇨🇺
Dear 'Chan Chan', I have known you for many years now. I have danced with you, on my own, & with strangers, & with loved ones too, some now gone. I have played you, sang you & even performed you a handful of times. You are one of my song-friends. A piece of music that has grown with me over the years, & collected memories. I don't often listen to you, but when I do, it is always with an intention. A homecoming within myself. A moment of nostalgia. A need for a good cry. A soft solitary dance. And you are always there, welcoming me back, every time. Thank you.
My Abuelita was from Cuba. She was the great grandmother to my sons. I learned most of my horrible Spanish from her. She had a terrible time in Cuba. She had to give up her daughter when she was only 6 years old during “ Operation Pedro Pan”. Her husband was tortured and killed, she was imprisoned. She had a perpetual sadness in her eyes but she was very proud and strong. I love that woman and I’m glad her blood flows in my son’s veins.
@@victormanueloliva1888 He means Latin American, not Latin lenguange at all. French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian are romance/Latin lenguange but he doesn't means about it.
Desde Escocia en pleno invierno escucho este tema. Afuera está bajo cero y cae nieve pero escucho esta música para recordar mis raíces latinoamericanas y mantenerme cálido por dentro.
Maravilhoso como a música rompe fronteiras. Tenho descendência escocesa, mas não faço ideia de onde meus parentes são e nem como vieram para o Brasil. Um abraço, irmão distante, e que a música aqueça também sua alma.
I feel like all music should be mixed this way. You can hear the room in which this was recorded. Almost reconstruct it in your head. So inmersive its magical.
jeremy segal I always picture like a dancing saloon. Picture frames and paintings on the walls, old and young couples dancing. All this while the sun rays shines through the open windows hitting all the little particles in the air which makes everything feel like time slowed down.
Having been to Cuba I can imagine this in somewhere like the Hotel Seville or a music hall and as said people old and young dancing, the country now has a faded grandeur about it, a beautiful country, the people the music the food, the cigars and rum (my personal favourites) I would go back in a heart beat, this time I'd want a motorbike to ride though so I can go out and explore on my own and not just go on organised trips the more touristy bits.
El son cubano nos conecta con un ritmo que obliga a escuchar y a bailar a todo latino. Viva latinoamérica. Vivan nuestras raíces, viva nuestra Historia. un abrazo al Pueblo Cubano desde Colombia.
The Oscar's brought me here 2024...Buena Vista Social Club was nominated for best documentary....2024...I don't understand a word...however my Heart feels the love in this song...some good days some not so good days...2024
A fabulous documentary! But it was released 25 years ago - not 2024. If you like this song, you may also like 'Chanchullo' by Ruben Gonzalez from the same film.
No importa la letra..la música tiene su propio sentido y provoca los más profundos sentimientos. Lo sé porque oigo canciones en cualquier idioma y sé qué es lo que me hacen sentir.
To me this is definitely one the best song ever written. Everything is perfect, vocals, guitars, emotions. Compay Segundo and Eliades Ochoa voices sounds like paradise
I'm an American in my 50s. I first heard Cuban music from a cd called Conga to Cuba. I'm in love. I feel like this is the world's music I don't care where you're from this music will move you.
This is one of my mother's favorite songs. She turns 60 today and keep singing it. With a broken spanish. She has a beautiful voice and likes the melody a lot. When I was 17, i left my little countryside for a few days in the beautiful city of Bordeaux, France, where I live now. I went out to a cuban bar with my friend, and after, at 3am, we met this group of musicians from Argentine. There was Andrés, the guy who was playing guitar, Luna, the dancer with the red dress... And when we arrived, they were playing and singing this song in the night, chilling next to the Place de la Bourse. Among all the songs they could have played. They chose this one. I started dancing a bit with Luna, and then we enjoyed the music and drank red wine. It was one of the most beautiful nights in my life. Keep memories awake through the music, guys.
He escuchado esta canción desde bebé, mi padre me las ponía y las escuchaba con mucha tranquilidad a su lado, a veces las cantábamos y otras solo nos quedábamos viéndonos y transmitiendo esa tranquilidad y esa conexión que ambos sabíamos que teníamos con esta canción, él falleció hace dos años y me alegra y me hace llorar escuchar estas canciones , me alegra mucho saber que mi papá sigue vivo a través de estas canciones ❤
La alarma d mi hijo..un gringo nacido n Palm Beach Florida d otra gringa nacida n New Orleans Louisiana...🇨🇺mi Padre un Santaclareño estaría muy orgulloso..era súper fan d BNSC
¡¡¡..Sólo escuchar los primeros acordes y se eriza la piel...Grande Cuba..La Perla del Caribe..Sú música es síntesis del Caribe y sus pueblos indistintamente de cual hablemos...!!!!..La música de la población de etnia negra en USA...,la música cuban y la del gran Brasil son , a mi entender ,los tres principales pilares de la expresión musical popular..¡¡..Viva Cuba y su gran pueblo..Viva Nuestra América Latina...Viva América...!!! Saravá pueblo brasileño...!!..Desde La Ciudad de Panamá en el Trópico Ecuatorial...!!
I’m an old mostly white lady in the US, and grew up listening to many music genres, including salsa. When I was a kid, there was a salsa mania going on in the early 60s. Perez Prado was very popular. They played his music on the top 40 stations.
It took me 40 years of living to finally appreciate the richness and depth of Cuban music. This song wraps itself around me, I want to succomb to its charm. This is a masterpiece whose balance and harmony will be enjoyed by many for centuries to come. What's the value of music? It is God's gift to humanity.
Chan Chan - una canción que ya es leyenda. Sonidos excepcionales, que tocan el alma. Cuba, la perla del Caribe. Grande nación, grande gente, grande musica. Gracias a Cuba, gracias querido Compay Segundo, que regalaste al mundo esta canción tán excepcional y de belleza eterna. Compay, siempre te vamos a extrañar. Y a Cuba los mejores saludos desde la Suiza lejana, y siguen adelante, compañeros.
I am Korean but It's the only Buena Vista Social Club and James Brown concert I've seen live concerts.. Although Combye didn't come, it was a very moving performance
This song feels to me like when you are going on the vacation and you are driving and you see the sea for the first time in the distance. That joy. That's also how I think love should feel.
This is the song that plays when you fall in love just by looking in someone's eyes. Then @2:40, the brass comes in and you both know you feel the same. What a melody this track has, thanks to my dad for showing me it when i was young.
Remember in Nairobi,Kenya way back 2000s at a club called Pavement ,Westlands used to have Salsa night and this song used to be played by a band there as we swing in our little known salsa dance and enjoyed watching the Cuban ambassador dancing to it like crazy and the current Kenyan president used to swing by to watch and enjoy ( then just a regular). Good ol memories 😊
My father used to play this song always in hes red Nissan almera while driving me to kindergarten. funny how this song can be stuck in your head for 20 years.
Tuve la suerte de verlos en vivo, gracias a un amigo de toda la vida, me regaló dos ticket, para su concierto en Santiago de Chile, inolvidable, que magníficos músicos gracias Cuba por tener estos artistas extraordinarios.
These are good memories. My father and his Cuban music band once took me with them to play when I was a little girl. I remember sitting in a corner of the bar while they gave their show, this was the song they played the most.
I first heard this song when I was sitting in a small hidden park on the island of the river La Seine in Paris. This small park is located between the two river branches and at the end of the island is a very old willow tree which leaves its branches trailing in the water. Under the willow tree, protected by the leaves, a man was sitting still looking to the horizon listening to this song playing outloud on his phone. I passed by and ended up sitting right behind him for the entire song, and I remember thinking that life had never seem that peaceful before.
This song inspired me to buy a guitar, and start taking online lessons, just so that I can learn this song. I am half way there. I hope to be able to play the entire song one day!
I heard sometimes that a good start means a good travel. And this is a good start indeed. Hope you never stop feeling motivated, playing guitar is one if not the best things I have and I wish you'll enjoy it too, good luck
Im from England and I don't really know a whole lot about Cuba but when I listen to this song it's like within me I feel deep memories of a beautiful past. What a powerful song.
My partner and I went to dancing lessons for a while. This was my absolute favourite song for dancing Salsa, and sometimes Janice (the dance teacher) put it on just for us. It is beautiful! :)
I am a Greek girl who just let's her energy flows in the rhythm of ethnic instrumental. It's so beautiful! Art let's us get familiar with cultures and their people. So peaceful 💞
Soy Mexicano, tengo 16 años y he de decir que normalmente la música que escucho ronda en el rock, rap, folk americano, pop, metal, entre otros. Pero hoy he tenido mi primera experiencia escuchando el son de Cuba gracias a Buena Vista Social Club y que puedo decir, me ha parecido un álbum increíble y lo he amado. Es increíble como la música rompe cualquier frontera cuando transmite tanto y como uno nunca deja de descubrir piezas que nunca imaginaste que disfrutarías así.
Legendary song even here in Tunisia , joyful and sad feelings at the same time, a night/day , summer/winter song , Chan Chan and Buena Vista are just eternal..
It's a great song with underlying tones of human tragedy and over coming of obstacles . I'm not a native speaker but you don't need to speak the language. Music is universal. We all have ears and are made of water with a heart ❤️
my son went to Cuba at about 20 yrs under the "Medical Supply" group, He was so well cared for by the people and lived with a family...loved the music too.
Soy de Uruguay y cuando empezó la música de está película en el cine, me atrapó totalmente hasta ahora . Me gusta la plena, la bomba, y otra ritmos , (por último la salsa por ser más mecánica y comercial ) Esto es como la esencia o la raíz del sabor, de mucho de lo que escuche en musica tropical . Aguante el 3+2 y también, mejor más sabroso el 2+3.
A lovely red headed woman invited me to their show, at the last minute, in Milwaukee. We were taken by the beautiful sounds and the people on the stage, it was like the music was sent from Heaven. We drank, danced and cried at the beauty of the amazing sounds. I believe it was the last show they ever did. It's one night I will NEVER forget.
As a Frenchman🇫🇷 of Moroccan🇲🇦 origin, I would love to visit Cuba🇨🇺 one day. I love its people, its history, its joy, its peace with the world. Love to Cuban Brother 🇨🇺🇨🇺 by your Friend 🇫🇷🇲🇦🇨🇺
As a Moroccan atheist with a Cuban atheist girlfriend , i would love to say that Cuba is one of the most interesting countries in the world ❤ Even if the country is communist, you still feel loved and cared by the people and natives ❤😊 C'est trop genial, promis! 😊
Mouais bof j'en sors le pays est giga pauvre et gangréné par le tourisme, un rapport a l'argent completement faussé qui déshumanise vachement le pays j'ai trouvé ca impressionnant
@@antoineharrault2421 bah j'y etais aussi. . le r*cisme est tres assume a Cuba . c'est la colle GLUE du tourisme et des institutions. Le design de leur version de racisme est tres "special".Ce que j'ai vu sur place m'a trop fait halluciner. Ca m'a fait penser au Bresil ou selon ta carnation t'as un poste specifique. en tant que metis j'avais assez vite compris que des gens pensaient que m'habillais "propre" pour me prostituer.
I heard this song while in Cuba years back with my parents and sister.I never forgot it... They just don't make music like this anymore...❤ songs that stir what's lost or alone inside ....memories of a different time ❤️🔥
About 20 years ago, I was a young little store clerk in a Border's Outlet, and a man came in looking for a CD from the Buena Vista Social Club. I don't remember how he described it, but I can remember his facial expressions and the vibe. Whenever I saw the name, I remembered the man. Today, I am listening for the first time.
I know the nice things we had during the cold war, which was very "warm" inside the socialist countries at that time. This song somehow stands for this warming athmosphere. Good childhood memories, imported fruits from cuba and so much more...
Another ten years so that more innocent Christians can be massacred by you?! You have had very bloody history, full of atrocities and unspeakable cruelty. You pretend you are so kind and nice, but just a bunch of monsters in reality. History is the proof.
This song takes me back to a very special time in my life. An evening that will never be forgotten. It’s a song of deep emotional beauty. It will forever live. I promise.
I proposed to my girl while this song was playing. Never knew the words, did not look them up still. This music is just what you want it to mean. Hasta siempre Compay !
It’s a terrific son, one of the best of the last 50 years, but it’s not the golden standard, not even within the son montuno genre. Listen to Trio Matamoros, Sexteto Nacional, Sexteto Boloña. Many more out there.
@@theodoredesade6550 people feel like categorizing themselves gains more validation points. Ive never listened to music from another part of the world and been like "im a black man and i like this" I listen to russian metalcore ffs lol
When i was little i used to film home videos with my lego sets , using an old sony handycam , and forcing my father to record . This song , he put on a cd player , at the begining of the first "movie" i ever recalled recording . Since then it has had a nostalgic feel for me that cannot ever be matched .
I had heard this track once on the radio, and sought out the name of the artists & title. When I found what I needed, I purchased the CD, and played it constantly. It is one of maybe 4 albums that I listened to, with the player set on 🔃. For months at a time. And I have searched for each of those albums online, and have gathered what I can, just so I can listen. I'm almost selfish about it.. I don't tell people why I love the music that I do, those songs just touch my heart & my soul.
A Cuban cigar, in a smokey bar, chatting, laughing and living life. I think this song sums up Cuban lifestyle perfectly
invite me
in Miami
add the best mojito you've ever tasted in your life and a discussion about Marxism.
@@onurbschrednei4569 marxism must be criminalised
Cuba's lifestyle wouldn't suit many first worlders. Music doesn't conform with the day to day life. The hardship....
I heard this song once but didn't know its name. You have no idea how crazy it drove me. All I could remember were the guitars pieces and what sounds like bongos. No lyrics, no video but pain. It played nonstop inside my head until now.....
Now.....I'm free.
Fly, friend.. fly free.
Same thing happened to me. It just popped one moment and tortured me the whole day. Fortunately, I could hum the melody and Google helped. I too feel free now.
@Marc Reiter lucky you
SAME. I always heard this on people's radios, in the background of restaurants, etc. and could never get the name.
same dude
finally ... closure ;-;
I lost my documents in Mexico when I was 21 and couldn’t get back to United States for few days. I remember sitting in a hotel balcony in Puerto Vallarta staring at the sunset and this song was playing on the radio. Although I was stressed about my situation I thought to myself “life is beautiful indeed”....
Haha cool story
when did it happen?
Barış İnan I think it was in 2015. The story is much more interesting just don’t want to share any personal details))
@@SurfistaCamad BP
🖤🖤🖤🖤
That song is absolute one of the best Spanish songs I have ever heard👍🏻😘
Greetings from Serbia 🇨🇺🇷🇸
Cuban song
@@Burt472
He means the language not the nationality 😂
Everytime my father was expecting guests this music was playing all around the house. Instant mood to prepare a party. My father died in 2013 and has been an example how to enjoy life to the fullest. I miss him everyday. I love how this album brings back so much memories of him.
Music is magic !!! you can travel in time!!!
The souls will return with quantum wormholes!!!! probably near when the singularity happens in 7 years :P
Yo, my dad died in 2012 and im forever thankful to him for showing me this track. Lets pass it on to the young and keep it alive, even if you dont have children yourself, this is worth sharing. big love.
Beautiful and sounds like top notch father!
rip
I will never get tired of listening to this masterpiece.
Same
Chupapi
Same
mmm taco
@@omer25466 cigar not taco
During a business trip to Havana I went out to dinner in the beautifully restored part of the old city...as I ate a group of musicians came along...and asked what Id like to hear..the album had just come out and I said Chan Chan...they smiled and for the next 30 minutes played the album and more....man Id love to relive that night.
@Perry Cloete Dang ! I hope you gave them a big fat tip, I know I would have.
@@trespire sure did, more than the dinner cost....and they were thrilled...
What luck!
You are a lucky Girl! A lifelong memory! :)
cubans can improv for days
This was my father's favourite song, and we used to listen Buena Vista in those happy times when we were together. Today (22.02.2022) is a second anniversary of my father's death, and I am listening this song in his honour. I miss you, and I want you to know that everything I am today is all because of you.
condolences
a great music to a great man, im sorry
You made me cry!!!
Keep praying dancing and smiling my friend…until you meet him again…Jesus is the Way
_"I miss you, and I want you to know that everything I am today is all because of you."_
Your dad raised a great person Marina. Keep him in your memories.
I am from Greece and I was learning guitar when I was very young. My teacher wrote me a whole cd and most of the songs were Cuban. I love the music 🇬🇷❤️🇨🇺
Πως θα γίνει να το παίξουμε κιθάρα ;και να μου το μάθεις 😆
Ωραία τραγούδια έμαθες.Ελπιζω να έχεις στο ρεπερτόριο σου το....Historia una more.. το bella ciao και το che cevara
❤
This music flows through my bones to the soul. Love and respect always to Cuba 🇨🇺 music!!!
Dear 'Chan Chan', I have known you for many years now. I have danced with you, on my own, & with strangers, & with loved ones too, some now gone. I have played you, sang you & even performed you a handful of times. You are one of my song-friends. A piece of music that has grown with me over the years, & collected memories. I don't often listen to you, but when I do, it is always with an intention. A homecoming within myself. A moment of nostalgia. A need for a good cry. A soft solitary dance. And you are always there, welcoming me back, every time. Thank you.
Maybe it’s time for another dance, x
😭
Probably the most beautiful comment on all of RUclips, ever. Thank you. My sentiment exactly.
GOAT comment
Muy lindas palabras 😍!!
My Abuelita was from Cuba. She was the great grandmother to my sons. I learned most of my horrible Spanish from her. She had a terrible time in Cuba. She had to give up her daughter when she was only 6 years old during “ Operation Pedro Pan”. Her husband was tortured and killed, she was imprisoned. She had a perpetual sadness in her eyes but she was very proud and strong. I love that woman and I’m glad her blood flows in my son’s veins.
Muito triste
Spanish language is made for singing and latino fingers are made to touch the guitar. Respect and Love
Very well said
Spaniards are Latins,Castilian or Spanish is a Romance or Neo-latin language.What do you mean by Latino?
Thank you brother!!! Viva latinoamerica!!
Rye Cooter plays on it
@@victormanueloliva1888 He means Latin American, not Latin lenguange at all. French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian are romance/Latin lenguange but he doesn't means about it.
one of the benefits of being alive.
one of the only
Yeah!
So true...
Así es
For reals
So proud to be a Cuban , and growing up to listening to this pure music it’s just makes me want to go back. I miss the beauty of my motherland
Why did you leave? where do you live now?
So proud to be Plish and being a part Cuban. Love,Shalom
Bro you miss your motherland by listening to this......... I miss your motherland when i listen to this, and im turkish😂
Rerzccffffgffttyffgjjh
@@40licanlar 😂👏
Desde Escocia en pleno invierno escucho este tema. Afuera está bajo cero y cae nieve pero escucho esta música para recordar mis raíces latinoamericanas y mantenerme cálido por dentro.
😮 I can relate from the us. Winter vibes but with a Latin background
Lo mismo desde Alemania
Osea no son solamente mojados pero mojados con sal 😂
yo me vi la pelicula excelente y la musica tambien
Maravilhoso como a música rompe fronteiras. Tenho descendência escocesa, mas não faço ideia de onde meus parentes são e nem como vieram para o Brasil. Um abraço, irmão distante, e que a música aqueça também sua alma.
I feel like all music should be mixed this way. You can hear the room in which this was recorded. Almost reconstruct it in your head. So inmersive its magical.
couldnt have said better
Totally spot on. I was picturing a room with somewhat low ceiling and wood-paneled walls, never stopped to think why I was picturing that.
jeremy segal I always picture like a dancing saloon. Picture frames and paintings on the walls, old and young couples dancing. All this while the sun rays shines through the open windows hitting all the little particles in the air which makes everything feel like time slowed down.
Having been to Cuba I can imagine this in somewhere like the Hotel Seville or a music hall and as said people old and young dancing, the country now has a faded grandeur about it, a beautiful country, the people the music the food, the cigars and rum (my personal favourites) I would go back in a heart beat, this time I'd want a motorbike to ride though so I can go out and explore on my own and not just go on organised trips the more touristy bits.
produced by Ry Cooder
VIVA MI CUBA BELLA. TE AMO Y TE NECESITO TIERRA QUERIDA. ❤🎉😢😢😍🥰😘🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺
Vuelve
Cuba hymn❤berry god😅
My parents used to play this album every Sunday morning all throughout my childhood. Such good memories.
El son cubano nos conecta con un ritmo que obliga a escuchar y a bailar a todo latino. Viva latinoamérica. Vivan nuestras raíces, viva nuestra Historia. un abrazo al Pueblo Cubano desde Colombia.
Salud de Brasil 🎉
my mom used to play this song at the coast of Mombasa when I was 10years old, am now 25. glad to find this masterpiece again.
It's a masterpiece 👌🏿
I was playing this song on my CD in Mombasa at the pool of a hotel..
I was twelve when I started listening
I`m happy for you. Enjoy it too.
Same bro, my mom always played that song in her car ! I'm so happy to find out years, give me so much nostalgia
SALUDOS DE MEXICANOS DESDE ECUADOR!! HERMANOS LATINOAMERICANOS!! QUE VIVA CUBA!!
The Oscar's brought me here 2024...Buena Vista Social Club was nominated for best documentary....2024...I don't understand a word...however my Heart feels the love in this song...some good days some not so good days...2024
A fabulous documentary! But it was released 25 years ago - not 2024. If you like this song, you may also like 'Chanchullo' by Ruben Gonzalez from the same film.
@@thomasleary2814 Thanks for the correction
No importa la letra..la música tiene su propio sentido y provoca los más profundos sentimientos. Lo sé porque oigo canciones en cualquier idioma y sé qué es lo que me hacen sentir.
To me this is definitely one the best song ever written. Everything is perfect, vocals, guitars, emotions. Compay Segundo and Eliades Ochoa voices sounds like paradise
Yes it is, I like Eliades Ochoa too.
Hay músicas que rompen las fronteras de sus países, y esta es una de ellas. Saludos desde BRASIL hermanos cubanos. Hermanos latino americanos.
saludos desde argentina hermano...
COLOMBIA🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴😭😭
Rompefronteras
American sisters 😊
Cuando es buena, la MUSICA NO TIENE FRONTERAS
I'm an American in my 50s. I first heard Cuban music from a cd called Conga to Cuba. I'm in love. I feel like this is the world's music I don't care where you're from this music will move you.
This is one of my mother's favorite songs. She turns 60 today and keep singing it. With a broken spanish. She has a beautiful voice and likes the melody a lot.
When I was 17, i left my little countryside for a few days in the beautiful city of Bordeaux, France, where I live now. I went out to a cuban bar with my friend, and after, at 3am, we met this group of musicians from Argentine. There was Andrés, the guy who was playing guitar, Luna, the dancer with the red dress... And when we arrived, they were playing and singing this song in the night, chilling next to the Place de la Bourse. Among all the songs they could have played. They chose this one. I started dancing a bit with Luna, and then we enjoyed the music and drank red wine.
It was one of the most beautiful nights in my life.
Keep memories awake through the music, guys.
Saludos desde Argentina, al hermano pueblo Cubano!
He escuchado esta canción desde bebé, mi padre me las ponía y las escuchaba con mucha tranquilidad a su lado, a veces las cantábamos y otras solo nos quedábamos viéndonos y transmitiendo esa tranquilidad y esa conexión que ambos sabíamos que teníamos con esta canción, él falleció hace dos años y me alegra y me hace llorar escuchar estas canciones , me alegra mucho saber que mi papá sigue vivo a través de estas canciones ❤
En Paz Descanse.
RIP
Que significa la letra???? La parte que no es coro?
@@marcoscasado8698 kkko
Una linda recordación! Todo si eterniza en la memória.
La alarma d mi hijo..un gringo nacido n Palm Beach Florida d otra gringa nacida n New Orleans Louisiana...🇨🇺mi Padre un Santaclareño estaría muy orgulloso..era súper fan d BNSC
¡¡¡..Sólo escuchar los primeros acordes y se eriza la piel...Grande Cuba..La Perla del Caribe..Sú música es síntesis del Caribe y sus pueblos indistintamente de cual hablemos...!!!!..La música de la población de etnia negra en USA...,la música cuban y la del gran Brasil son , a mi entender ,los tres principales pilares de la expresión musical popular..¡¡..Viva Cuba y su gran pueblo..Viva Nuestra América Latina...Viva América...!!! Saravá pueblo brasileño...!!..Desde La Ciudad de Panamá en el Trópico Ecuatorial...!!
I’m an old mostly white lady in the US, and grew up listening to many music genres, including salsa. When I was a kid, there was a salsa mania going on in the early 60s. Perez Prado was very popular. They played his music on the top 40 stations.
Tuve la.oportunidad de verlos y contemplar tremenda melodía en vivo en La Habana, una maravilla, que hermoso ❤
It took me 40 years of living to finally appreciate the richness and depth of Cuban music. This song wraps itself around me, I want to succomb to its charm. This is a masterpiece whose balance and harmony will be enjoyed by many for centuries to come. What's the value of music? It is God's gift to humanity.
It's my favorite Cuban song, a masterpiece. The feeling it gives is indescribable
Chan Chan - una canción que ya es leyenda. Sonidos excepcionales, que tocan el alma.
Cuba, la perla del Caribe. Grande nación, grande gente, grande musica. Gracias a Cuba, gracias querido Compay Segundo, que regalaste al mundo esta canción tán excepcional y de belleza eterna. Compay, siempre te vamos a extrañar.
Y a Cuba los mejores saludos desde la Suiza lejana, y siguen adelante, compañeros.
I am Korean but
It's the only Buena Vista Social Club and James Brown concert I've seen live concerts..
Although Combye didn't come, it was a very moving performance
Listening to this in 2020, because in an increasingly inauthentic world, this is one of the truly authentic things.
Amen
Greetings from Germany! I cannot live without this song....
Ich höre ihn auch mind 5 mal die Woche!
Ich schließe mich an
Ich auch
Und ich
I'm obsessed since I heard it the first time 20 years ago. Melody and simple lyrics just wonderful!
Then listen to Orishas' 537
This song feels to me like when you are going on the vacation and you are driving and you see the sea for the first time in the distance. That joy. That's also how I think love should feel.
👍👍❤ exactly!!
This is the song that plays when you fall in love just by looking in someone's eyes. Then @2:40, the brass comes in and you both know you feel the same. What a melody this track has, thanks to my dad for showing me it when i was young.
Exactly! Or you have been driving 18 hours to visit family and you finally enter Minot.
Remember in Nairobi,Kenya way back 2000s at a club called Pavement ,Westlands used to have Salsa night and this song used to be played by a band there as we swing in our little known salsa dance and enjoyed watching the Cuban ambassador dancing to it like crazy and the current Kenyan president used to swing by to watch and enjoy ( then just a regular). Good ol memories 😊
My father used to play this song always in hes red Nissan almera while driving me to kindergarten. funny how this song can be stuck in your head for 20 years.
Your dad drove to kindergarten. And I thought MY dad was gangsta!
You mean Nissan altima?
@@ChicanoOne760 Almera might be a eu name
my mother played this on the cd player when i was little. i also feel extremely nostalgic listening to this
Same
this song makes me so nostalgic, and it makes the urge to travel again unbelievably intense, especially in these times! cuba te extraño
Tuve la suerte de verlos en vivo, gracias a un amigo de toda la vida, me regaló dos ticket, para su concierto en Santiago de Chile, inolvidable, que magníficos músicos gracias Cuba por tener estos artistas extraordinarios.
These are good memories. My father and his Cuban music band once took me with them to play when I was a little girl. I remember sitting in a corner of the bar while they gave their show, this was the song they played the most.
I first heard this song when I was sitting in a small hidden park on the island of the river La Seine in Paris. This small park is located between the two river branches and at the end of the island is a very old willow tree which leaves its branches trailing in the water. Under the willow tree, protected by the leaves, a man was sitting still looking to the horizon listening to this song playing outloud on his phone. I passed by and ended up sitting right behind him for the entire song, and I remember thinking that life had never seem that peaceful before.
One of those few songs I have been listening to for so long without ever getting tired of it
This song inspired me to buy a guitar, and start taking online lessons, just so that I can learn this song. I am half way there. I hope to be able to play the entire song one day!
Nice one brother, keep at it. 🙋🏼♂️
Go study guitar. It is great. At 62 after many years of guitar study, I can say the study of guitar does good things for your soul.
I heard sometimes that a good start means a good travel. And this is a good start indeed. Hope you never stop feeling motivated, playing guitar is one if not the best things I have and I wish you'll enjoy it too, good luck
Keep at it buddy, playing guitar is such a joy!
And it’s only those 4 chords over and over 😎
Im from England and I don't really know a whole lot about Cuba but when I listen to this song it's like within me I feel deep memories of a beautiful past. What a powerful song.
You just summed up my whole life: "within me I feel deep memories of beautiful past." And I feel the same way about this song.
tatum ergo dude just because his country captured countries doesn’t mean he’s a bad person. Dude come on.
@@tatumergo3931 lol imagine idolising american culture
The Carribeans were part of Atlantis.
@@tatumergo3931 Un gusano que adora una cultura basura que está en decadencia JAJAJAJA
God bless Cuba ... Greetings and much love from your Greek brothers 🇬🇷🇨🇺
A cigar, a cool summer night, your drink of choice and this song playing in the back. Perfection unlocked
My partner and I went to dancing lessons for a while. This was my absolute favourite song for dancing Salsa, and sometimes Janice (the dance teacher) put it on just for us. It is beautiful! :)
The people of the group are angels and this is music from heaven
I am a Greek girl who just let's her energy flows in the rhythm of ethnic instrumental. It's so beautiful! Art let's us get familiar with cultures and their people. So peaceful 💞
Music is the UNIVERSAL language
Χαιρομαι που υπαρχουν Έλληνες με τετοια γούστα!! ❤️
@@marilenakostog5217 ❤️❤️❤️
@@nateb335 exactly!!!
This song epitomizes the beauty of Cuban music.
I’m here based on listening to African artists and my gosh, it reminds me of the sounds I would here in African musics. The strings and the drums...
Soy Mexicano, tengo 16 años y he de decir que normalmente la música que escucho ronda en el rock, rap, folk americano, pop, metal, entre otros. Pero hoy he tenido mi primera experiencia escuchando el son de Cuba gracias a Buena Vista Social Club y que puedo decir, me ha parecido un álbum increíble y lo he amado. Es increíble como la música rompe cualquier frontera cuando transmite tanto y como uno nunca deja de descubrir piezas que nunca imaginaste que disfrutarías así.
Welcome to classic Cuban salsa!
Soy Mexiko haha
Yo soy igual soy mexicano tengo 15 y la estoy escuchando porque me la pidieron para tocarla en la guitarra jaja
Soy mexicano tengo 46 años y me encanta el rock y gracias al rock e aprendido a escuchar buena musica
Legendary song even here in Tunisia , joyful and sad feelings at the same time, a night/day , summer/winter song , Chan Chan and Buena Vista are just eternal..
It's a great song with underlying tones of human tragedy and over coming of obstacles . I'm not a native speaker but you don't need to speak the language. Music is universal. We all have ears and are made of water with a heart ❤️
One of the most amazing set of guitar notes and soothing voices. just out of this world.
This song will never get old...actually it's way ahead of its time. Beautiful song.
I think that Cuban music is the most gorgeous music that you could ever listen to.
Mucho
si solo se hubiera logrado la utopía anti capitalista. quien diría ,podría pasar en un futuro
Spanish is one of the best languages for someone to learn and listen to.
I think you are Cuban.
-Second to classical music.
Feliz de Escuchar Esta Canción Por Estos Grandes Cubanos !! Su Amor a Cuba Es Infinito ❤😇🇦🇷🇨🇺🏝Todos Hermanos Latinoamericanos Unidos Bendiciones
my son went to Cuba at about 20 yrs under the "Medical Supply" group, He was so well cared for by the people and lived with a family...loved the music too.
Esta cancion la escuche tambien en la version de La Barranca del disco El Fuego de la Noche, Me encanta esa cancion Grancias Cuba querida 🇲🇽🇨🇺
Cuando estás a miles de kilómetros de tu tierra, esta música te lleva por unos minutos a su suelo
Sí, yo estuve solo 5 años allí, pero extraño mucho. Quedan solo los lindos recuerdos! Un abrazo!
Soy de Uruguay y cuando empezó la música de está película en el cine, me atrapó totalmente hasta ahora .
Me gusta la plena, la bomba, y otra ritmos , (por último la salsa por ser más mecánica y comercial )
Esto es como la esencia o la raíz del sabor, de mucho de lo que escuche en musica tropical . Aguante el 3+2 y también, mejor más sabroso el 2+3.
beautiful song. One of my new favorites indeed. The rythym and lead guitar are on point. I love that Cuban groove.
This song right here, I feel it all through my soul! just amazing.
A lovely red headed woman invited me to their show, at the last minute, in Milwaukee. We were taken by the beautiful sounds and the people on the stage, it was like the music was sent from Heaven. We drank, danced and cried at the beauty of the amazing sounds. I believe it was the last show they ever did. It's one night I will NEVER forget.
Mi disco favorito de todos los tiempos, una representación de la música Cubana.
Yo por las clases xd
As a Frenchman🇫🇷 of Moroccan🇲🇦 origin, I would love to visit Cuba🇨🇺 one day. I love its people, its history, its joy, its peace with the world.
Love to Cuban Brother 🇨🇺🇨🇺 by your Friend 🇫🇷🇲🇦🇨🇺
As a Moroccan atheist with a Cuban atheist girlfriend , i would love to say that Cuba is one of the most interesting countries in the world ❤ Even if the country is communist, you still feel loved and cared by the people and natives ❤😊 C'est trop genial, promis! 😊
Mouais bof j'en sors le pays est giga pauvre et gangréné par le tourisme, un rapport a l'argent completement faussé qui déshumanise vachement le pays j'ai trouvé ca impressionnant
@@antoineharrault2421 bah j'y etais aussi. . le r*cisme est tres assume a Cuba . c'est la colle GLUE du tourisme et des institutions. Le design de leur version de racisme est tres "special".Ce que j'ai vu sur place m'a trop fait halluciner. Ca m'a fait penser au Bresil ou selon ta carnation t'as un poste specifique.
en tant que metis j'avais assez vite compris que des gens pensaient que m'habillais "propre" pour me prostituer.
@@antoineharrault2421comme le Maroc
As a mexican guy, you would be wellcome everywhere in latinamerica. I haven't heard no one who has a problem with moroccan or whatever people
Escutava com meu pai quando era menino. Ele já se foi. É muito emocionante pra mim escutar esse álbum, me faz lembrar destes tempos bons
Pai tinha bom gosto.
I heard this song while in Cuba years back with my parents and sister.I never forgot it... They just don't make music like this anymore...❤ songs that stir what's lost or alone inside ....memories of a different time ❤️🔥
Esta música é simplesmente maravilhosa! Saudações de um brasileiro ao grande povo cubano.
salud🥃🚬
I have no idea what they’re singing about....but it moves me. Repeat on long drives. Anyone else?
About 20 years ago, I was a young little store clerk in a Border's Outlet, and a man came in looking for a CD from the Buena Vista Social Club. I don't remember how he described it, but I can remember his facial expressions and the vibe. Whenever I saw the name, I remembered the man. Today, I am listening for the first time.
Great story!
I stayed in Havana many years ago this song is Cuba for me, it's a force on your body.
Just curious - anyone else obsessed with this song? I
me more than 10 years now my eyes get wet and i'm not cuban but i love them !!!!
I know the nice things we had during the cold war, which was very "warm" inside the socialist countries at that time. This song somehow stands for this warming athmosphere. Good childhood memories, imported fruits from cuba and so much more...
I am and I don't even understand a single words.
It's a brilliant song without bridges, choirs, or any modern conventions. But the cadence and rythm of this song feels like life itself.
Dominique Sherter yes for over 15 years for me.
As a young turkish, i dont know what language this is but it safisties me to live about another 10 year. What a great song to listen!
Man,how are you there? Earthquake was a disaster there, hope Turkish people and you are great 🙏
It's Spanish
Espanol. No Islam
Another ten years so that more innocent Christians can be massacred by you?! You have had very bloody history, full of atrocities and unspeakable cruelty. You pretend you are so kind and nice, but just a bunch of monsters in reality. History is the proof.
¡Amo Cuba, su gente, la gente, la tradición! Dios proteja a Cuba siempre
O povo organizado em armas os protegem , e não Deus.
Melancolía sentida entre las cuerdas de su guitarra, puro sentir
no
one of the best songs ever recorded
I'm obsessed with this song learning how to play bass guitar. My daddy would be so proud all the way from San Salvador. RIP pops
Perdi a conta de quantas vezes já ouvi !
Sensacional !
Vive les Caraïbes, vive la Guadeloupe, vive Cuba et vive l'Afrique ❤❤❤❤
The way their voices intertwine and complement one another is extraordinary.
This song takes me back to a very special time in my life. An evening that will never be forgotten. It’s a song of deep emotional beauty. It will forever live. I promise.
:( nostalgia por mi tierra, mis amigos, mi gente que ya no estan. Hermoso tema
Cuanto daño les hizo el comunismo amigos cubanos.
No eres solo :)
Cuba Livre!
Viva Cuba, respecto de Brasil !!
@@bdlblob Cuanto daño ha hecho el capitalismo asqueroso, imperialista y asesino
Desde Madrid,España 🇪🇸 nunca olvidamos nuestra historia.
I am obsessed with this song it reminds me one of my brother the past away in 2005 in Dominican Repúblic Rest In Peace
I proposed to my girl while this song was playing. Never knew the words, did not look them up still. This music is just what you want it to mean. Hasta siempre Compay !
good luck bro!
This song is the golden standard of music. Within 100 years time, no one will have composed anything even close to it. Compay Segundo 💓💫
love this song but there are plenty on great songs too out there. Being ignorant is a crime.
It’s a terrific son, one of the best of the last 50 years, but it’s not the golden standard, not even within the son montuno genre. Listen to Trio Matamoros, Sexteto Nacional, Sexteto Boloña. Many more out there.
@@Aih1616 Having preferences doesn't mean being ignorant. Good day to you.
@@MAMRetro Will do thanks!
One of the best songs in the history of music.
I’m an Africian American Female... I am absolutely IN LOVE WITH THIS SONG... I feel each and every word that’s composed in this song ❤️
did you just find out that music is universal?
Is this a necessity to precise your gender and ethny before telling something ?
@@theodoredesade6550 people feel like categorizing themselves gains more validation points.
Ive never listened to music from another part of the world and been like "im a black man and i like this"
I listen to russian metalcore ffs lol
@@godlesspeacesign8852 It was a rhetorical question, I know what troubles actually disturb occident, same bullshits arrived in Europe too...
I’m a 37 year old squirrel. I hella love listening to this song while drinking milk near the freeway.
Simplemente me lleva hacia un viaje cubano mental.... está canción ❤️❤️
This Song remembers me of a time I was a Don in Cuba, even though I never was!
When i was little i used to film home videos with my lego sets , using an old sony handycam , and forcing my father to record . This song , he put on a cd player , at the begining of the first "movie" i ever recalled recording . Since then it has had a nostalgic feel for me that cannot ever be matched .
Thank you Grandad for marrying my black African American Grandma! Cuba is in my heart forever!
I had heard this track once on the radio, and sought out the name of the artists & title. When I found what I needed, I purchased the CD, and played it constantly.
It is one of maybe 4 albums that I listened to, with the player set on 🔃. For months at a time.
And I have searched for each of those albums online, and have gathered what I can, just so I can listen.
I'm almost selfish about it.. I don't tell people why I love the music that I do, those songs just touch my heart & my soul.
Hahaha I perfectly understand you.
Tô aqui, no Brasil, de quarentena ouvindo o lindo som cubano!
Excelente! Saludos,Veracruz,México
Eu também 😂😍
I never knew cuba was good at making jazz. Wooow!