Article: Roberto Garcia Sr. Havana's bongo-playing patriarch.(Entrevista)

There are many Cuban musical dynasties found throughout the history of the largest Caribbean island. One could mention, for example, the Cachao and Hernández bass clans or the artistic bloodlines generated by Jacobo Rubalcaba and Bebo Valdés, among many other musically prolific families.

The preceding paragraph was drafted as an appropriate introduction to the following conversation with the percussive patriarch of another productive Cuban dynasty. Born in Havana in 1932, Roberto García Sr. is the sibling of a couple of talented tumbadores (Regino and Guillermo), as well as the father of a pair of gifted U.S.-based trap drummers/percussionists (Espi and Coky ...

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