Cal Tjader is considered the most successful non-Latino Latin musician in jazz. Born in St. Louis, Missouri to touring Swedish American vaudevillians, Tjader's parents settled in San Mateo, California, and opened a dance studio. His mother instructed him in classical piano and his father taught him to tap dance. He performed around the Bay Area as "Tjader Junior," a tap-dancing wunderkind. The Mambo craze of the 1950s facilitated the formation of the “Modern Mambo Quintet.” Tjader was so popular
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