Mongo Santamaria, a Cuban conga player and percussionist who arrived in New York at the beginning of the jazz-Latin fusion and was arguably the most popular Latin musician of the 1960s, died Feb. 1 He ...
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Afro Blue; Chano Pozo; Yambu; Mongrama; Barandanga; Guaguanco Mania; Para Ti; Las Guajiras; Tenderly; Bacoso; Introduction By "Symphony Sid"; My Sound (congas drum ...
New York - A popular and influential Latin jazz percussionist is dead.Mongo Santamaria died Saturday in a Miami hospital following a stroke. He was 85.Santamaria scored a top-ten hit in 1963 with his ...