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 ...
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 ...
In his column this week, Jeff Weiss talks with renowned conga player Poncho Sanchez about the unlikely gringo who put him on. Today we've got another Sanchez story about an even stranger encounter — ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Perhaps it was a sneak peek into what the future holds for the leader of what was once known as one of the most prosperous nations in all of Latin America. Facing mounting pressure from the ...