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A composer and drummer, Costanzo is best known for having been a bongo player, and was nicknamed "Mr. Bongo". He visited Havana three times in the 1940s and learned to play Afro-Cuban rhythms on the bongos and congas. Costanzo started as a dancer, touring as a team with his wife before World War II.
In these groups, the bongo player is known as bongosero and often plays a continuous eight-stroke pattern called martillo (lit. ' hammer ') as well as more rhythmically free parts, providing improvisatory flourishes and rhythmic counterpoint. [2]
Arthur Laboe, a local disc jockey, signed him to Original Sound Records, which released his single "Bongo Rock" in 1959. The tune became a hit in the U.S., reaching #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 that year. [2] [3] The follow-up, "Bongo Bongo Bongo", reached #78 the following year. [2]
The Incredible Bongo Band, also known as Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band, was a project started in 1972 by Michael Viner, a record artist manager and executive at MGM Records, producer, MGM Records executive and Curb Records founder Mike Curb and arranger Perry Botkin Jr. [1] [2] Viner was called on to supplement the soundtrack to the B-film The Thing With Two Heads. [3]
John Rodríguez Jr. (September 11, 1945 – August 17, 2024), better known as Johnny "Dandy" Rodríguez, was an American bongo player of Puerto Rican descent. He was the long-time bongosero for Tito Puente, and also played with Tito Rodríguez, Ray Barretto and Alfredo de la Fe.
"Played-A-Live (The Bongo Song)" is a song by Danish percussion duo Safri Duo. It was released in November 2000 as the lead single from their first mainstream studio album, Episode II . The Michael Parsberg -produced song, which has a mix of tribal drums with electronic music twists, sold 1.5 million copies worldwide [ 3 ] and became the fourth ...
Cándido Camero Guerra was born in the barrio known as El Cerro, in Havana, to Caridad Guerra and Cándido Camero. [1] [2] [3] His interest in music began at the age of 4, when his maternal uncle Andrés, a professional bongosero for the Septeto Segundo Nacional, taught him to play bongos on condensed milk cans.
Christ Bongo-Zanoni (born 11 August 1976) is a Congolese former professional footballer who played as a striker. He played for SV Wilhelmshaven , Hannover 96 , Gazélec Ajaccio , FC Aarau , FC Schaffhausen , FC Solothurn , FC Thun and FC 105 Libreville , and also represented the Republic of the Congo internationally.