Diaz, Miguel

▪ 2007

Miguel Aurelio Díaz Zayas; “Angá”  Cuban conga player (b. 1961, San Juan y Martínez, Cuba—d. Aug. 6, 2006, Sant Sadurni d'Anoia, near Barcelona, Spain), was a classically trained percussionist and star in Cuban pop and jazz bands by the early 1990s, when he began to expand his repertoire and extend the possibilities of his instrument. He was featured in the Cuban supergroup Irakere and appeared on three albums of the Buena Vista Social Club revival of traditional Cuban music. By the time his last album, Echu Mingua, appeared in 2005, he had folded elements of African music, reggae, jazz, and American pop and hip-hop into his unique melodic five-conga style.

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