BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer dies

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer dies: "Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer dies
Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer
Ibrahim Ferrer had just got back from a European tour
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."