The Jesús Maria district in the oldest part of Havana, Cuba, might be pretty much overlooked if not for the fact that, 100 years ago Friday, Ramon Santamaria was born there. "Mongo" Santamaria was ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jose Rizo’s MONGORAMA is a nine-piece Latin Jazz all-star band built and guided to honor Mongo Santamaria by the hand of Jose Rizo, a Latin musical legend in California who's been broadcasting from ...