Celia Cruz

Celia Cruz

female, deceased (2003)
Afro-Cuban, la negra tiene tumbao, la vida es un carnaval, salsa music, Brain tumour death, Latin American…Cuban-American, Afro-Cuban music, Cuban
Celia Cruz was a three-time Grammy Award and four-time Latin Grammy winning Afro-Cuban-American salsa singer who spent most of her career living in...
Mario Bauza

Mario Bauza

male, deceased (1993)
Afro-Cuban jazz clarinetist, Latin jazz musician, Afro-Cuban jazz composer, Afro-Cuban, Mario Bauzá, trumpet…Afro-Cubans
Mario Bauzá was one of the most influential figures in the development of Latin jazz or as he referred to it, Afro-Cuban ("Latin" Music, a term c...
Hilton Ruiz

Hilton Ruiz

male, deceased (2006)
Latin jazz pianist, Afro-Cuban jazz pianist, Bebop pianist, Accidental death from falls, Afro-Cuban, American
Hilton Ruiz was a Puerto Rican-American jazz pianist in the Afro-Cuban jazz mold, but was also a talented bebop player. Ruiz began playing piano at...
Youssou N'Dour

Youssou N'Dour

male, 50 years old
English-language singer, Wolof-language singer, French-language singer, Wolof language, dakar, traditional…Afro-Cuban
Youssou N'Dour (born October 1, 1959 in Dakar) is a Senegalese singer and percussionist. He helped develop popular music in Senegal, known in the...

Machito

male, deceased (1984)
Jazz bandleader, latin jazz, havana, London, England, Afro-Cuban, Ronnie Scott…Afro-Cubans
Machito, born Francisco Raúl Gutiérrez Grillo in Havana, Cuba, was an influential Latin jazz musician. Machito played a huge role in the history of...

Arturo O'Farrill

male, deceased (2001)
from New York City, Afro-Cuban jazz trumpeter, Bebop composer, havana, Afro-Cuban jazz composer, American jazz bandleader…Afro-Cuban, Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, Afro-Cuban jazz
Arturo "Chico" O'Farrill (b. Havana, Cuba, October 28, 1921; d. June 27, 2001) was a musician who led an Afro-Cuban big band, the Afro-Latin Jazz...
Chico Alvarez

Chico Alvarez

male
Tropical musician, Latin music musician, American, Mafimba, New World Gallery, Ernesto "Chico" Alvarez Peraza…Afro-Cuban
Ernesto "Chico" Alvarez Peraza is a Latin American music artist who is known throughout the New York City and tri-state area simply as Chico...
Mellow Man Ace

Mellow Man Ace

male, 42 years old
Baka Boyz, Cuban, Dust Brother, Ralph Medrano, Vengo a Cobrar, Bronek Wroblewski…Afro-Latin American, Afro-Cuban
Ulpiano Sergio Reyes (born April 12 1967) is an Afro-Cuban rapper known as Mellow Man Ace and original member of the rap group, Cypress Hill Born...
Fernando Ortiz

Fernando Ortiz

male, deceased (1969)
transculturation, Revista Bimestre Cubana, Archivos del Folklore Cubano, Colon Cemetery, Cuban Liberal Union, Estudios Afrocubanos…Afro-Cuban, Cuban
Fernando Ortiz Fernández was a Cuban, essayist, ethnomusicologist and scholar of Afro-Cuban culture. Ortiz was a prolific polymath dedicated to e...

Mongo Santamaría

male, deceased (2003)
Afro-Cuban jazz percussionist, Latin jazz musician, tito puente, boogaloo, percussionist, soul music…Cuban, Afro-Cuban, Afro Blue
Ramón "Mongo" Santamaría was an Afro-Cuban Latin jazz percussionist. He is most famous for being the composer of the jazz standard "Afro Blue," re...