Cuban king of congas Tata Guines dead
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King of the Congas” Tata Guines, Cuba’s most famous percussionist who shared the stage with Josephine Baker and Frank Sinatra half a century ago, died on Monday in Havana. He was 77.
Cuban state media reported that Guines, whose real name was Federico Aristides Soto, died of a kidney infection.
He was born in a poor black neighborhood in the town of Guines, just east of Havana, and made his first bongo drums from sausage and condensed milk cans.”*
*From: www.reuters.com
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