Grammy Award, presented to Mongo Santamaría
date: label: presentation date
content: 1977
name: label: recipient
content: Santamaria, Ramon "Mongo"
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This award was presented to Ramon "Mongo" Santamaría by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), in 1977. It has a brown stained wood base, with a metal cast gramophone. There is an engraved plate:</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>NATIONAL ACADEMY OF RECORDING ARTS & SCIENCES<br> MONGO SANTAMARIA<br>BEST LATIN RECORDING – 1977<br>"Dawn”</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p> Ramon "Mongo" Santamaría received this Grammy for his recording <i>Dawn (Amanecer)</i> on Vaya Records, released in 1977.</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
place: label: place made
content: United States
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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: 2005.0030.08
label: accession number
content: 2005.0030
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0030.08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: award
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 5 in x 4 7/8 in; 16.51 cm x 12.7 cm x 12.3825 cm
label: Measurements
content: base: 3 in x 4 13/16 in x 4 15/16 in; 7.62 cm x 12.22375 cm x 12.54125 cm
label: Measurements
content: gramaphone: 4 3/8 in x 3 3/16 in; 11.1125 cm x 8.09625 cm