Gregorio Hernández Ríos (17 November 1936 – 8 January 2012), known as El Goyo, was a Cuban rumba singer, dancer and percussionist.
He toured Europe and Latin America with various ensembles and recorded with Tata Güines, Alfredo Rodríguez and Jane Bunnett, among others.
[2] Born in the Pinar del Río Province, but registered in the Havana census, on 17 November 1936, El Goyo—as he was always known—began his career as a singer and dancer from a very young age.
His big break came in 1962, when he was accepted into the Conjunto Folklórico Nacional, a new ensemble organised by the government to preserve Cuba's cultural traditions and to present them abroad.
By the 1990s, el Goyo was one of Havana's most prominent rumberos and he began to collaborate on numerous recordings with artists such as Tata Güines, Alfredo Rodríguez (in Paris) and Jane Bunnett.