CongaBoard Roll Call - Ages - How old are you people??? lol

[G-Man]

53...I was born in 54. Started playing bongos at 8 and went to drum set at 13. Then gave it all up at 25. Started playing Congas about 4 years ago. A true passion resurfaces and takes hold. :p

Gary

[congalou]

29, always love music, start drum at 13 and love it more and more

Galou.

[tfunk]

47 played snare drum in high School. Didn't play anything again till I bought a conga in 1996. Have been lucky enough to learn to play well enough to play in bands...jazz, funk, soul & rock mostly. Gig about twice a month. Still just a beginner though, love Afro-Cuban music!

[blango]

Turned 40 this weekend!!! man.... gotta start digging

....27 of them on the congas.

[folkloricoSD]

22 yrs. old

[Mike]

22 yrs. old

Hooray! After all those congueros in their best years - at least that´s what we keep on telling us, don´t we? :;): there is a youngster out there - presumably without elbow or shoulder pain due to old age :p
Who´s youngest?

[Jongo]

I am 37 and I started playing about 7 years ago and I love it! I don't know if my little boy is the youngest conguero but he has to be close. At about 6 months I would hold him on my lap and he would play his heart out on my conga. I was amazed, he had really good open tones. Now he is 15 months and I don't have to hold him on my lap anymore he just stands by the conga reaches up and open tones and the beginings of a good slap. I am such a proud Papi!

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[Mike]

Hi Jongo, nice pic!
Your photo reminded me of my kids too (2 sons, 10 and 7 years)
That´s my youngest ´snowboy´, who grew up with the conga as it were. He is the quinto guy somehow when we play together. Well, in the evening I have to stop or he won´t get any sleep...
In general kids have fleshy/chubby hands and are sometimes surprisingly good at open tones or slaps.

Mike



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[Tonio]

47 , playing since 14. Now I don't feel so bad LOL

T

[OLSONGO]

Tonio,
What are you talking about feeling bad ?
I am like wine, gets better with age.

Grasp the pebble from my hand grasshopper

Paz,
Olsongo

[Tonio]

I am like wine, gets better with age.

LOL Olsongo, many things do come better with age

T

[umannyt]

I'm a relatively "old fart" at 57. (No offense meant to those my age or more senior than me. I'm just being totally self-deprecating.) But, like many Asians (Are Filipinos, some of whom are part Hispanic like me, really Asians?) or Pacific Islanders, I have the advantage of physically looking supposedly 10 to 20 years younger! :laugh:

I know for a fact that I'm still as fun-loving and enthusiastic about life as when I was in my 20s. Therefore, I feel like a 20-something trapped in a 50-something body! :laugh:

I've always been musically-inclined ever since I can remember. My very 1st instrument was a ukelele at about age 6 or 7, followed by the trumpet, piano, guitar and drums. Guitar was the instrument I played for the longest period of time--spanning 2 decades (considering 2 decades of hiatus from music due to career and family responsibilities).

I took up percussion only early this year, 2007, when I was invited to join my current all-original blues/rock band, "blueZapple". I was invited to join not so much because the other bandmembers dreamed of having an expert percussionist in the band, which I certainly am not (yet at least), but more so because of my singing voice which is in reality my best instrument.

Humbly but frankly speaking, I'm a high tenor with a 3.5 octave vocal range. I can hit Steve Perry's highest notes in my natural tenor voice and Phil Bailey's ("Earth, Wind & Fire") notes using falsetto. (You can check out some of my cover song personal demo recordings on my Multiply.com website whose link is included below.)

I've been singing since I was a kid and have always had one of the highest, if not the highest, vocal ranges among my peers. I have a facility for both solo and harmony singing. The latter is due to the fact that I hear internally (in my brain) not only in single notes but in whole chords. I'm very comfortable singing rock & roll, R&B, pop, jazz and even some classical (church liturgical) songs.

As part of my continuing vocal lessons, I belong to a church choir with an excellent classically-trained director and soloist. On my own, I also continue to improve my voice using the Speech Level Singing program pioneered by Seth Riggs, who is the vocal coach of Barbra Streisand, and improved upon by Brett Manning, the vocal coach of the Grammy Award-winning Australian country singer, Keith Urban.

Thankfully, though, my past drumming background and experience, natural gift for rhythm and timekeeping, keen observation ability, natural inclination to always pursue a new endeavor with intense passion and partly Latin culture, all combined, have enabled me to learn to play multi-percussion (congas, bongos, timbales and Latin percussion toys) in a relatively short period of time.



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[vinnieL]

I'm 35 playing one instrument or another since i was 15

[akdom]

Hi all.

I will turn 38 in January and been playing for over 15 years now.... pffff almost half of my life...


B

[Omelenko]

Tengo cincuenta y seis ABRILES. I'm 56, started messing around with a quinto back in La Habana when I was 9, still going at it and always learning. Moforibale al tambo'.
Here I am (last on the right) with my spiritual father. MONGO LIVES !
Dario

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