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Karl Perazzo

Rubén Rada

Montevideo, Uruguay

Biography

Rubén Rada is an Afro-Uruguayan percussionist, composer, and singer. He is closely associated with candombe, a genre built around a chorus of tamboriles, Uruguayan barrel drums. Rada has recorded more than thirty albums. His music, labeled candombe beat, combines pop, rock, and other styles with Uruguayan sounds, such as candombe drums and murga choruses. Rada has composed some of Uruguay’s most cherished songs.

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