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Ibrahim Ferrer

1927 - 2005

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Ibrahim Ferrer (20 February 1927 – 6 August 2005) was a Cuban singer who played with the group Los Bocucos for nearly forty years. He also performed with Conjunto Sorpresa, Chepín y su Orquesta Oriental, and Mario Patterson. After his retirement in 1991, he was brought back in the studio to record with the Afro-Cuban All Stars and Buena Vista Social Club, in March 1996. He then toured internationally with these revival groups and recorded several solo albums for World Circuit, before his death in 2005. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ibrahim Ferrer is the 256th most popular singer (down from 226th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Cuba and the 3rd most popular Cuban Singer.

Ibrahim Ferrer is most famous for being the lead singer of the Buena Vista Social Club.

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Ibrahim Ferrer ranks 256 out of 4,381Before him are The Weeknd, Otis Redding, Alessandro Moreschi, Victoria de los Ángeles, Ricky Martin, and Eric Burdon. After him are Rita Pavone, Dionne Warwick, Mirella Freni, Stevie Nicks, Courtney Love, and Max Romeo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Ibrahim Ferrer ranks 80Before him are Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Herbert Blomstedt, Juan Almeida Bosque, Hélène Langevin-Joliot, César Milstein, and Margot Honecker. After him are Lee Grant, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Victor Wong, Robert Noyce, Jean-Claude Pascal, and Kurt Masur. Among people deceased in 2005, Ibrahim Ferrer ranks 55Before him are Rosemary Kennedy, Peter Benenson, Consuelo Velázquez, Ahmed Deedat, Victoria de los Ángeles, and Robert Sheckley. After him are Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, Wim Duisenberg, Ephraim Kishon, Carlo Maria Giulini, Arman, and Emmanuelle Arsan.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, Ibrahim Ferrer ranks 20 out of 300Before him are Emilio Mola (1887), Celia Cruz (1925), Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (1956), Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado (1919), Juan Almeida Bosque (1927), and Alicia Alonso (1920). After him are Teófilo Stevenson (1952), Rita Marley (1946), Javier Sotomayor (1967), Gerardo Machado (1871), Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (1819), and Vilma Espín (1930).

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Among SINGERS In Cuba

Among singers born in Cuba, Ibrahim Ferrer ranks 3Before him are Gloria Estefan (1957), and Celia Cruz (1925). After him are Rita Marley (1946), Omara Portuondo (1930), Pérez Prado (1916), Silvio Rodríguez (1946), Camila Cabello (1997), Mongo Santamaría (1917), Laurel Aitken (1927), Pablo Milanés (1943), and Benny Moré (1919).