Francisco Aguabella

Francisco Aguabella

Infobox musical artist
Name = Francisco Aguabella


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Instrument = conga drums
Genre = jazz
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Francisco Aguabella (Born on 28 August 1925 in Matanzas, Cuba) is an Afro-Cuban jazz conga player, well-known on the jazz scene since the 1950s. In 1992 he won a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Los Angeles, California where he teaches Afro-Cuban drumming to undergraduate and graduate students at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Discography

*"Agua de Cuba"
*"H2O"
*"Cubacan"
*"Cantos a los Orishas"
*"Ochimini"

Films

*1954 - "Mambo"
*1985 - "Sworn to the Drum: A Tribute to Francisco Aguabella". Directed by Les Blank. [http://www.lesblank.com/more/drum.html]

External links

* [http://www.franciscoaguabella.com Official Website of Francisco Aguabella]


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