Marilyn Mazur
Percussionist Marilyn Mazur (born 1955) was born in New York City to a Polish mother and African American father. The...
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Naná Vasconcelos
Naná Vasconcelos (1944-2016) is a percussionist who was a favourite collaborator of a number of ECM recording artists, including Pat...
Alex Acuña
Alex Acuña (born 1945) was born in the town of Pativilca in central Peru. His father was a music teacher,...
Babatunde Olatunji
Babatunde Olatunji (1927-2003) was a key figure in introducing American audiences (and musicians) to the spiritual power and rhythmic complexity...
Frank Holder
Frank Holder (1925-2017) was born in Bridgetown, Guyana and sang as a child at church socials and also when he...
Guy Warren
Kofi Ghanaba (1923-2008), who recorded as Guy Warren, is considered the founding father of a movement to reunite (in his...
Flora Purim
Flora Purim (born 1942) was born in Rio de Janeiro. She studeied piano and guitar, and then percussion with Airto...
