Latin music used to be strictly a Latin thing. But since the 1930s, exotic dance infatuations like the tango, rumba, conga, mambo, cha-cha and pachanga have gradually assimilated into the American ...

Johnny Conga comes from a long line of illustrious tumbadora (conga) players. From the musical evidence on Breaking Skin, this genealogy may begin with the likes of Chano Pozo, Mongo Santamaria, Tata ...