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Afro-Cuban performer (1917–2003)

Musical artist

Ramón "Mongo" Santamaría Rodríguez (April 7, 1917 – Feb 1, 2003) was a Cuban percussionist and bandleader who drained most sell like hot cakes his life's work in representation United States. Primarily a conga drummer, Santamaría was a radiant figure mass the pachanga and boogaloodance crazes faux the Sixties. His largest hit was his concept of Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man", which was inducted into picture Grammy Lobby of Laurels in 1998. From rendering 1970s, without fear recorded principally salsa come first Latin talk, before prudish in interpretation late Nineties.

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Abril Lamarque papers, 1883-2013, bulk 1904-1999

Eduardo Abril Lamarque (1904-1999) was a Cuban born cartoonist, caricaturist, graphic designer, illustrator, and art director who worked primarily in New York City.

Eduardo Abril Lamarque was born in Cuba on August 28, 1904. His parents sent him to the United States in 1916 when he was twelve to study English and business administration. He lived with an American family in Brooklyn. At age 15, Lamarque's first cartoon was published in the Boy Scout section of the New York World-Telegram and Evening Mail. Four years later he created Bla-Bla, a comic strip that appeared regularly in the New York Daily News. He is credited with creating, in the early 1920s, the first Spanish language comic strip that was not translated from English. The title cartoon character, Monguito, was a hapless soul, fully dressed in business suit and hat, who kept getting into sticky situations. Lamarque produced hundreds of these strips which were picked up by the New York based United Feature Syndicate and published daily in Spanish language newspapers throughout Latin America and the United States.

When he was twenty, Lamarque returned to Cuba to work as the artistic director for the Havana newspaper Lunes de Diario de Cuba. He also pub

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Monguito "El Unico" (b Ramón Quian, Manguito, Matanzas Province, Cuba; d May 26th 2006, NYC) Afro-Cuban sonero (extemporising salsa singer) with distinctive nasal voice, composer, bandleader, producer; dubbed "El Unico" (The Unique). Performed with Orquesta Ito and Orquesta Mazzuet in his native town before relocating to Havana, there sang with Orquesta Modernista and Conjunto Modelo; moved to Mexico '50s, there worked with Conjunto de Alejandro Sosa, Orquesta Los Brillantes, Pepé Arévalo y sus Mulatos and appeared in three movies; moved to NYC '62, began with Orquesta Broadway, made first album with Arsenio Rodríguez on Primitivo '63 on Roost.

He was a member of Johnny Pacheco's band Nuevo Tumbao '64-6 (singing on Pacheco At The NY World's Fair '64, Pacheco Te Invita a Bailar '65 and Viva Africa '66, all on Fania); sessioned on Herbie Mann's Latin Mann '65 on Columbia (aka Big Boss Mann); participated in Tico All-Stars' Descargas At The Village Gate Live, Vol. 1 & Descargas At The Village Gate Live, Vol. 3 '66 on Tico; played maracas on Larry Harlow's debut Heavy Smokin' '66 on Fania and shared lead vocals on the follow-up Bajandote - Gettin' Off '67 during a yea