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The resulting album of fourteen songs, Buena Vista Social Club, was released in September 1997 and became a global hit, selling eight million copies. [10] In July 1998, Mirabel and the other musicians on the album were flown to New York to play a sell-out concert at Carnegie Hall. A documentary of the event was nominated for an Oscar. [11]
The Buena Vista Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares aged four years old or older over the distance of one mile on the turf scheduled annually in February at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. The event currently carries a purse of $200,000.
The sound of Havana is coming to Broadway. Nearly 30 years after the Grammy-winning album Buena Vista Social Club became a critical and commercial success, a new musical inspired by the making of ...
Southern Seminary Main Building, originally known as the Hotel Buena Vista and now Main Hall of Southern Virginia University, is a historic hotel building located at Buena Vista, Virginia. It was built in 1890, and is a 3 1/2-story, brick and frame building in an eclectic combination of Queen Anne and French Renaissance style architecture.
The RBC Heritage became an “elevated” event for the first time in 2023, which more than doubled the purse to $20 million and guaranteed appearances by golf’s most popular players.The 2024 ...
Barbarito Torres and Carlos Calunga performing with Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club in 2012. Bárbaro Alberto Torres Delgado (born 1956), better known as Barbarito Torres , is a Cuban musician best known for his work with the Afro-Cuban All Stars and the Buena Vista Social Club since 1996. [ 1 ]
Escalators from Buenavista train station up to the shopping levels of the Forum Buenavista. Forum Buenavista is a 37,250-square-metre (401,000 sq ft) [1] shopping mall built atop the Buenavista Station in Colonia Buenavista, central Mexico City, where Avenida de los Insurgentes meets Eje 1 Norte.
The Battle of Buena Vista (February 22–23, 1847), known as the Battle of La Angostura in Mexico, and sometimes as Battle of Buena Vista/La Angostura, was a battle of the Mexican–American War. It was fought between U.S. forces, largely volunteers, [ 3 ] under General Zachary Taylor , and the much larger Mexican Army under General Antonio ...