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He grew up in New York. During the 50's, son of the afro-cuban conga player Mongo Santamaria, he was surrounded by Latin music, especially by Tito Puente's Orchestra in which his father played. Piano player, Monguito Santamaria recorded, in a Latin Soul style, a serie of LPs for Fania Records from the late 60's. .

There appears to be 2 artist sharing this name: 1) Cuban born salsa singer Monguito aka Ramon Quian aka "El Unico" (The Unique One/The Only One, as he was nicknamed) who reached his peak with the gold selling 1979 SAR records album "yo no soy mentiroso" 2) a current belgian free improv group .

Monguito "El Unico" (b Ramón Quian, Manguito, Matanzas Province, Cuba; d May 26th 2006, NYC) Afro-Cuban sonero (extemporising salsa singer) with distinctive nasal voice, composer, bandleader, producer; dubbed "El Unico" (The Unique). Performed with Orquesta Ito and Orquesta Mazzuet in his native town before relocating to Havana, there sang with Orquesta Modernista and Conjunto Modelo; moved to Mexico '50s, there worked with Conjunto de Alejandro Sosa, Orquesta Los Brillantes, Pepé Arévalo y sus Mulatos and appeared in three movies; moved to NYC '62, began with Orquesta Broadway, made first album with Arsenio Rodríguez on Primitivo '63 on Roost. He was...