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Rub茅n Rada is a giant of Uruguayan music. As a small child he nearly died of tuberculosis, but once he recovered he threw himself into the country's famous month-long carnival, playing in various popular bands when he was just 10 years old. Rub茅n's musical career, spanning seven decades, has won the admiration of Sir Paul McCartney and he once taught Sir Mick Jagger how to dance candombe - the Afro-Uruguayan music that he's championed since childhood. But it took Rub茅n decades of singing and facing racism, hardship and even self-imposed exile in Europe, before he could really make a living from his music in his home country.

Producer/presenter: Louise Morris
Voice-over: Nandy Cabrera

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Clip of Ruben's concert at the Auditoria del Sodre in Montevideo: Carnaval, M煤sica y otros inventos

(Photo: Rub茅n Rada. Credit: Louise Morris)