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Jun 30, 1930 Güines, Cuba Died on 04 Feb 2008 (aged 77)
Cuban musician
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About Tata Güines
- Federico Arístides Soto Alejo (June 30, 1930 – February 4, 2008), better known as Tata Güines, was a Cuban percussionist, bandleader and arranger.
- He was widely regarded as a master of the conga drum, and alongside Carlos "Patato" Valdés, influential in the development of contemporary Afro-Cuban music, including Afro-Cuban jazz.
- He specialized in a form of improvisation known as descarga, a format in which he recorded numerous albums throughout the years with Cachao, Frank Emilio Flynn, Estrellas de Areito, Alfredo Rodríguez and Jane Bunnett, among others.
- In the 1990s he released two critically acclaimed albums as a leader: Pasaporte and Aniversario.
- His composition "Pa' gozar" has become a standard of the descarga genre.
