This is the last interview that Chacha gave before his untimely death in July 2007, for inclusion in Kabiosile’s “El Lenguaje del Tambor.” In it he talks of his childhood in Little Africa, starting out with Los Munequitos, and his meeting with Fernando Ortiz.

In Memory of Chachá

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