The Buena Vista Social Club was an actual club in Havana, Cuba. It was a very popular place for Cuban musicians to come and jam during the 1940s and 1950s.
After the 1959 revolution, Cuban president and devout Christian Manuel Urrutia Lleó started to close down casinos, clubs and anything else that supported the supposed hedonistic lifestyle plaguing the little island country. The only real Cuban music left with support was that which backed up the new communist government.
By happenstance, not quite 40 years later, guitarist Ry Cooder went to Cuban to record with some African musicians. Due to visa issues, they didn't show so he recorded with some of the old Cuban musicians.
They recorded the album and it became Buena Vista Social Club, the album. Which would later become the film. It would all spawn a re-interest in Latin music.
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