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Biography
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Sabu Martinez
Real name: Louis Martinez
Effective period / Period of releases: 1954 - 2013
American conguero and percussionist, a prominent player in the Cubop movement in the 1950s.Born: 14 July 1930 in New York City's El Barrio (Spanish Harlem), New York, USA.
Died: 13 January 1979 (of a gastric ulcer) in Sweden (aged 48).