Cee Lo Green was driven to use conga drums in a song because he was so homesick. The American star recorded his track Wildflower with writer and producer Fraser T. Smith, who has opened up about the ...

FLANKED BY HIS beloved conga drums, Ray Barretto was fondly recalled yesterday as a giant of Latin music who fused the worlds of jazz and salsa. “Ray was good, always – good as a person and good as a ...

A true jazz giant, Ray Barretto, who died Friday at 76 in New Jersey, made his name playing conga drums on jazz and salsa records since the late 1950s. Today, he will be buried at Riverside Memorial ...

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 ...

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 ...

PORT JERVIS - Emedin Rivera has played conga drums and percussion around the world, whether funk and soul, jazz, Afro-Irish or background music for a wolf documentary. He has played with Larry Coryell ...

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 ...