Tata Güines

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Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

Cuba

Active from

1930

Active to

2008

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Tata Güines (born Federico Aristides Soto y Alejoà June 30, 1930, died February 4, 2008) was a Cuban percussionist on the tumbadora, or conga drum, as well as a composer. He was important in the first generation of Afro-Cuban jazz.[1] Güines was born in Güines, a poor town east of LA HAVANA in HAVANA province of Cuba. He made his first drums out of milk cartons and sausages. He became famous for playing the conga, a tall, narrow drum of Congolese brought to Cuba by African slaves from the Congo.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

male

Citizenship

Cuba

Place of birth

Güines

Place of death

Havana

Occupation

composer

Instrument

double bass

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