Billboard Latin Music Award, presented to Mongo Santamaría
date: label: Date made
content: 2001
name: label: referenced
content: Santamaria, Ramon "Mongo"
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This award was presented to Ramon "Mongo" Santamaría by <i>Billboard</i> magazine, in 2001. It is a clear glass panel on a black glass base. The panel is engraved:</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>PREMIOS<br>Billboard<br>DE LA MUSICA<br>LATINA<br>2001<br>HALL<br>DE LA<br>FAMA<br>MONGO SANTAMARIA</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>The <i>Billboard</i> Latin Music Hall of Fame is a rarely presented honor presented by American magazine <i>Billboard</i> at the <i>Billboard</i> Latin Music Awards. The tribute was established in 1994 to recognize musical personalities who have commercially and critically impacted the Latin music industry. Mongo Santamaría was inducted unto the Latin Hall of Fame for “bridging Afro-Cuban grooves, jazz and R&B with his conga performances.”</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Ramón "Mongo" Santamaría Rodríguez (1917–2003) was a Cuban percussionist and bandleader who spent most of his career in the United States. Primarily a conga drummer, Santamaría was a leading figure in the pachanga and boogaloo dance crazes of the 1960s. From the 1970s, he recorded mainly salsa and Latin jazz, before retiring in the late 1990s. Santamaria made several recordings as a leader of his own group, as well as a sideman with Fania All-Stars, Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillespie, and Ray Charles.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
title: label: Title (Spanish)
content: Premios Billboard de la Musica Latina, presentado a Mongo Santamaría
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Percussion
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Nancy Santamaria
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0030.09
label: accession number
content: 2005.0030
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0030.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: award
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 7/8 in x 8 in x 2 3/8 in; 27.6225 cm x 20.32 cm x 6.0325 cm