Tatá Güines, like many musical veterans who started playing professionally in the 1940s and 50s, a golden age for Cuban music, he found international fame in the 1990s at the end of the cold war, when ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - "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 ...

Celebrated Cuban percussionist Tata Güines, known as "the king of the drum", died Monday in Havana, aged 77, according to family sources. By Howell Llewellyn Celebrated Cuban percussionist Tata Güines ...

Tata Guines, 77, a conga drummer who helped popularize Afro-Cuban rhythms worldwide, died Monday outside Havana after being hospitalized for hypertension and kidney problems. Known as the “King of the ...

Tata Guines, one of the most important percussionists on the tumbadora, or conga drum, in the first generation of Afro-Cuban jazz and son montuno, died Monday in Havana, where he lived. He was 77. The ...

Federico Arístides Soto, 77, a conga drummer known as Tata Güines, whose six-decade career helped popularize Afro-Cuban rhythms worldwide and who was known as the King of the Congas and Golden Hands, ...

Three hours may seem like a long time to wait for the evening’s headliner, and under almost any circumstances, such a delay would be intolerable. But considering that it had been 35 years since Cuban ...

Cubans are mourning the "King of the Congas," percussionist Tata Guines, who died at 77 in Havana. He shared the stage with such star as Frank Sinatra, Josephine Baker and Dizzy Gillespie, after ...

Cuban musicians, family and friends remembered the island’s most famous conga drummer, Tata Guines, as he was buried outside Havana on Tuesday after a six decade career that helped popularize ...

GUINES, Cuba " Cuban musicians, family and friends remembered the island's most famous conga drummer, Tata Guines, as he was buried outside Havana on Tuesday after a six decade career that helped ...

Tata Guines, Cuba's most famous percussionist, has died of a kidney infection in Havana. He was 77. Guines, whose real name was Federico Aristides Soto, died on Monday, Cuba's state media reported.