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Carlos "Patato" Valdes
Conga player
1
Giovanni Hidalgo
Puerto Rican percussionist and music educator
2
Arsenio Rodríguez
Cuban musician
3
Armando Peraza
Cuban percussionist
4
Mongo Santamaría
Cuban musician
5
Machito
Latin jazz musician
6
Airto Moreira
Brazilian musician
7
Eddie Palmieri
American recording artist; pianist
8
Francisco Aguabella
Cuban master percussionist
9
Tata Güines
Cuban musician
10
Hermeto Pascoal
Brazilian composer, arranger, multi-instumentalist
11
Cal Tjader
American Latin jazz musician, recording artist
12
Flora Purim
Brazilian jazz singer
13
Alfredo Rodríguez
Cuban pianist from the 1960s to 2000s
14
Mario Rivera
Dominican musician, composer and arranger
15
Milt Holland
American drummer, percussionist, musicologist and writer
16
Juan Pablo Torres
Cuban musician
17
Raul de Souza
Brazilian musician
18
Cachao
Cuban musician
19
Al McKibbon
American musician
20
Mario Bauzá Cárdenas
American musician
21
Michel Camilo
Dominican Grammy-award winning pianist and composer (born 1954)
22
Gary Meek
American musician
23
Alex Acuña
Peruvian musician
24
Willie Bobo
American musician
25
Frank Emilio Flynn
Cuban composer, pianist and jazz musician (1921-2001)
26
Cándido Camero
Cuban percussionist
27
Lecuona Cuban Boys
Cuban popular band during the 30's and 40's
28
Jerry Gonzalez
American musician
29
Lawson Rollins
American musician
30
Bobby Sanabria
American musician
31
Oscar Castro-Neves
Brazilian guitarist, composer, arranger
32
Trio Matamoros
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