First Look: Perdomo Compay^®

COMPAY^® is Nick Perdomo's tribute to Cuba's rich musical past and its favorite son - the legendary Compay Segundo. Born Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz in 1907, he got his stage name - Cuban slang for second compadre - from his specialty in low harmonies. He emerged as one of the most respected musicians of the pre-revolution era. Following Fidel Castro's rise to power, Segundo worked as a cigar roller at the famed H. Upmann and Partagas factories in Havana before returning to music in the late 1980s. He and his band, the Buena Vista Social Club, attracted worldwide acclaim in 1998 before he passed away in Havana in 2002 at the age of 95. Only death could put an end to the rise of such an enchanting star who had once sworn to live to 100 -- and then ask for an extension.

Hand crafted in choices of a dark, complex Maduro or a rich Cameroon wrapper, COMPAY^® is a special blend of medium bodied, vintage Nicaraguan tobaccos. COMPAY^®, like the rich harmonies and tonal qualities of his music, is an ambitiously divergent mix of bold flavors fused with a delicate undercurrent of flirtatiously smooth and balanced notes on the palate.

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