Rafael Santa Cruz (29 September 1960 – 4 August 2014) was a renowned Afro-Peruvian musician and author of the book El Cajón Afroperuano on the cajón, a Peruvian instrument created from wooden boxes by slaves when their owners tried to ban the drum culture, fearing the drums would help form slave uprisings.[1]
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- ^ Rachel Chase. "Peruvian cajon player, actor Rafael Santa Cruz dies at 53". Peru this Week. Archived from the original on 2014-08-12. Retrieved 2014-08-05.
External links edit
- History of the Cajon (in Spanish)
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