Fransisco Repilado marches on in the second century of his legend, In Havana, his memory keeps burning in the house where he lived the last days of his lifetime. On First Avenue and 22 Streetm in the neighborhood of Miramar , the Compay Segundo House - Museum treasures memorabilia ranging from his harmonica and a hybrid of three stringer and guitar that the charismatic artist used to paly, to the paintings that his authors gifted him with, some of the featuring his own image or tokens of his ingenuity, like the one that celebrated painter Eduardo Roca once gave him. The house´s galleries display his many tropies and awards he won. the clarinet that marked his tenure in the Matomorros Orchestra and he cut his musical teeth with at the Santiago de Cuba Concert Band, and the humidor that preseves the cigar brand named after him.

There lies the rustic chair and the table where the maestro used to drink his morning coffee and light the first ciger of the day while doning a line by line reading of a newspaper. " A man unaware of what´s going on around the world jumps out fo bed naked".

He once say a year and and a half before passing on July 14, 2003. A glance around this insitution also reminds us of the fact that Compay Seguns´s contributions to Cuba discography poes beyond the splendid bevy of tunes he started churning out since hte early 1990s when the Buena Vista Social Club brought him back into world limelight, this time around for good.

During his early years in Havana. Compay Segundo played for the Hatuey Quartet, first under leadership of Justa Garcia and later on with Evelio Machin, brother of larger than life Antono Machin, as well as of Marcelino Guerra. After touring Cuba in the late 1930s with the Hatuey Quater and then with Matamorros Orchestra, one fine day Company started doing the accompaniment voice to Lorenzo Hierrezuelo while he was cutting his hair. That off the cuff jam session gave birth to Los Compadres, formed by Compay Primo Lorenzo and Compay Segundo Repilado. Once a month they used to record a siengle for the PANART label. this linkage with the recording industry carried on, though in a humbler way, when Compay following his brakup with Lorenzo put together his own band