Manny Oquendo (José Manuel Oquendo)
01ENE1931 - 25MAR2009
always framed in the key, Manny Oquendo left us an important legacy in the implementation of the timpani and bongo. Their sound was influenced by drummers as Oreste Varona, Antolin Suarez Diaz and Ramon Castro Ulpiano, among others. Oquendo had sufficient merit to be in the place reserved only for adults. Pupi Campo, Tito Puente, Jose Curbelo, Tito Rodriguez, Eddie Palmieri, among others, could count on his knowledge of rhythms and Afro-Cuban musical tradition, adding flavor, rhythmic weight and strength. Founder and leader of groups such as Grupo Folklorico Experimental Nuevayorkino and the legendary Conjunto Libre, Manny Oquendo was a worshiper of the true sound of salsa, dense, uncompromising, full of flavor but with due reverence to the key and tradition . A large leaves, whose loss we regret those who bear the Afro-Caribbean citizens.
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