Milton Cardona

Milton Cardona (November 21, 1944 – September 19, 2014) was a percussionist, vocalist and conga player from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.[1][2]

Milton Cardona
Background information
Born(1944-11-21)November 21, 1944
Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
DiedSeptember 19, 2014(2014-09-19) (aged 69)
GenresJazz, world, Latin music
Occupation(s)Musician, singer
InstrumentsPercussion
LabelsAmerican Clave

Milton Cardona made well over 1000 recordings, nine of which won Grammies. His career and was highly influenced by Mongo Santamaria. He studied violin during his childhood in The Bronx, New York, and played bass guitar professionally in New York City as a youth before playing percussion. He collaborated with Kip Hanrahan, Spike Lee, Paul Simon, Willie Colón, David Byrne, Cachao, Larry Harlow, Eddie Palmieri, Don Byron, Celia Cruz, Guaco, Hector Lavoe, Ned Rothenberg, Rabih Abou-Khalil and Jack Bruce from the rock band Cream. He died on September 19, 2014, from heart failure.[3]

Early life

His family moved to the South Bronx, from Mayaguez, when he was 5 years old. He was a santero, a priest of Santería.[2]

Selected discography

With Rabih Abou-Khalil

With Uri Caine

gollark: I don't know if the people designing electoral systems actually did think of voting systems which are popular now and discard them, but it's not *that* much of a reason to not adopt new ones.
gollark: There are plenty of things in, say, maths, which could have been thought up ages ago, and seem stupidly obvious now, but weren't. Such as modern place value notation.
gollark: Obvious things now may just not have been then.
gollark: Hindsight bias exists.
gollark: As I said, a REALLY bad one would be allocating the vote randomly. This satisfies almost nobody, which makes it a "good compromise" by your definition, but it does that because it has tons of flaws.

References
  1. "American Clave". Americanclave.com. Retrieved September 28, 2014.
  2. Pareles, Jon (September 26, 2014). "Milton Cardona, Keeper of New York Salsa's Beat, Dies at 69". New York Times. Retrieved September 27, 2014.
  3. "El Heraldo". M.elheraldo.co. Retrieved September 28, 2014.
  4. "Willie Colón: Cosa Nuestra". Fania.com. Retrieved September 28, 2014.



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