Mongo Santamaria enjoyed a long and successful career in Latin music. His recordings and concert performances ranged from the authentic percussion music of Afro-Cuban religious rituals through to ...

As one of the premier ambassadors of Latin music, conguero and bandleader Mongo Santamaria melded styles to arrive at an infectious fusion of hot rhythms with the improvisational energy of jazz.

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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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Grammy winner Ramon “Mongo” Santamaria, who was among the most popular Latin jazz musicians of the 1960s, died Saturday in Miami. He was 85. He had been on life support since suffering a stroke last ...

It didn't look like it was going to be Mongo Santamaria's night, as he lugged his congas into a Cuban night club in the Bronx in 1962. There were only three people in the audience, and Santamaria's ...