In 1917, Ramon Santamaria Rodriquez was born into poverty in Havana, Cuba. Nicknamed “Mongo” (a tribal chief in Senegal), he began playing the conga drum at an early age and as a teen, Mongo ...
Dizzy Gillespie reportedly once described Francisco Aguabella as “the Coltrane of the conga drum.” And the influence of the legendary Cuban percussionist, now in his 70s, upon hand drummers of the ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Raul Instrumentos de Percussão was ...
Marcos Odara has been playing the conga drums for 39 years and teaching for the last 20. Odara hails from Salvador da Bahia, Brazil and now calls Oakland home. The drum master teaches Brazilian ...
Cuban percussionist Miguel “Anga” Diaz, an acclaimed conga master who perfected a dazzling five-drum technique with a versatility that allowed him to span genres from progressive jazz to traditional ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Many Washingtonians danced to rhythms played on this Haitian conga drum. Hide stretched taut across the drum forms its ...
Conga Drum Mania is a fun music rhythm games where you play your conga drum along to the many songs. ♫ Simple Clave - Classic conga beat. ♫ Sierra Samba - Quicker tempo Samba! ♫ Casa de Conga - A fun ...
Cándido Camero, the legendary Cuban conguero who pioneered the three-conga style and helped usher in a generation of Latin jazz, died peacefully at home in New York Saturday morning (November 7), NPR ...