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- Cándido Camero was a percussionist who is considered one of the fathers of Latin jazz, best known for his conga and bongo drumming.
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Cándido Camero Guerra (22 April 1921 – 7 November 2020), known simply as Cándido, was a Cuban conga and bongo player. He is considered a pioneer of Afro-Cuban jazz and an innovator in conga drumming. [1]
Nov 22, 2020 · Cándido Camero, Conga Master Who Transformed Jazz, Dies at 99 - The New York Times. He brought Afro-Cuban influences to American ensembles and dazzled audiences with his virtuosic multiple-drum...
Nov 7, 2020 · Cuban-born percussionist Candido Camero, circa 1960. Bill Wagg/Redferns. The pioneering Cuban percussionist Cándido Camero has died at age 99. Camero's grandson, Julian, told NPR member...
- Felix Contreras
Nov 7, 2020 · Candido Camero, a virtuoso percussionist who had a major hand — or more precisely, two of them — in the development of Afro-Cuban music, died today at his home in New York City. He was 99. His grandson, Julian, said he died in his sleep.
- Bobby Sanabria
Nov 12, 2020 · Candido Camero, a Cuban musician who helped find new expressive directions for conga drumming, providing dynamic rhythmic accents to jazz and other forms of music, died Nov. 7 at his home in...
- Matt Schudel
Nov 7, 2020 · Cuban-born percussionist Candido Camero, circa 1960. / Redferns. The pioneering Cuban percussionist Cándido Camero has died at age 99. Camero's grandson, Julian, told NPR member station WBGO that the Cuban conguero died peacefully at his home in New York on Saturday morning.
Nov 29, 2020 · Cuban-born percussionist Cándido Camero (usually simply known as “Cándido”), died at his home in New York City on 7 November. He was 99. He was called the “father of modern conga drumming”, and his innovation was to play more than one conga drum at a time, sometimes adding bongos.
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