Candido Camero, 'father of modern conga drumming,' dies at 99
Cándido Camero, a Cuban musician who helped find new expressive directions for conga drumming, providing dynamic rhythmic accents to jazz and other forms of music, died Nov. 7 at his home in New York City. He was 99.
Mr. Camero, who often performed and recorded as simply “Candido,” began his career in Cuba at 14 and was still active past the age of 95.
He was considered a towering figure on the congas, which are tapered drums played with the fingers and hands.
His greatest innovation was to play more than one conga drum at a time, eventually settling on a setup of three congas, each tuned to a different pitch.
He sometimes added bongos and other percussion instruments, creating a whirlwind of complex rhythms and sounds.
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Cándido Camero, 1921-2020.