Carl Smith discovered his artistic gift while working at Birmingham Water Works, now his wooden creations sell for thousands ...

Cuban percussionist Miguel “Anga” Diaz, an acclaimed conga master who perfected a dazzling five-drum technique with ... to the National School of Art in Havana, where he also had the chance ...

Giovanni Hidalgo has taken the art of playing congas to new heights with his ... What on earth are you going to hope to hear from a conga with nothing even resembling a drum to be seen? The answer is ...

He was considered a towering figure on the congas, which are tapered drums played with the fingers and hands. His greatest innovation was to play more than one conga drum at a time, eventually ...

Before then, Chuck Brown’s percussionists played two large conga drums. Now there were four. What Jungle Boogie came up with next helped map out go-go’s rhythmic DNA. There are less ...

He attended a Catholic school in Miami Beach, picking up the guitar and the conga drum. And he was eventually ... that includes the Bass Museum of Art and a library. The idea for the tribute ...

Are you kidding? While pounding on the conga drums night-after-night may take its physical toll, Rekow wouldn”t give it up for all the oil in Alaska. Not after 31 years of working for Carlos ...

This marked the arrival of Rekow on the international scene, its opening track, Carnaval, featuring a fiery and energetic conga drum executing an Afro-Brazilian samba de roda pattern. It was the ...