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 ...
Steve Alcala started teaching high school music in the 1980s. Today, he supplies much needed sheet music to customers around ...
Come on, shake your body! Tonight, Latina icon Gloria Estefan got the entire American Music Awards moving to a medley of her dance-ready hits. Jennifer Lopez introduced the performance, which saw ...
He brought Afro-Cuban influences to American ensembles and dazzled audiences with his virtuosic multiple-drum technique. By Neil Genzlinger “When you talk about percussion, particularly the evolution ...
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 ...