| Alex Acuña | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “wood bata”), instrument |
| Francisco Aguabella | Person | Male | Cuba | | instrument |
| Taye Ajiboye | Person | Male | Nigeria | | instrument (as “iya”), instrument (as “iya, omele abo, omele meta”) |
| Sola Akingbola | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument (as “Cuban (iya, itotele, okonkolo)”) |
| Don Alias | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Jacob Andersen | Person | Male | Denmark | | instrument |
| John Anthony | Person | Male | Philadelphia | | instrument |
| Jess Anzaldúa | Person | | United States | | instrument (as “batá”) |
| Alexis "Pututi" Arce | Person | | | | instrument |
| Philbert Armenteros | Person | Male | Miami | | instrument (as “bata”) |
| Steve Berrios | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “bata drums”) |
| Manuel Bizeau | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “itotele”) |
| Bobby Sanabria | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “bata”), instrument |
| Eddie Bobé | Person | Male | New York | | instrument |
| Weedie Braimah | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “bata”), instrument |
| Antonio Martínez Campos | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “bata”) |
| Milton Cardona | Person | Male | Puerto Rico | | instrument (as “Itótele”), instrument (as “bata (iya)”), instrument (as “bata drums”), instrument (as “iyá”), instrument |
| Diego Centeno | Person | Male | Puerto Rico | | instrument (as “tambores batá”) |
| Dom Chacal | Person | Male | Brazil | | instrument (as “bata”) |
| Chief Bey | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “bata”) |
| Julio Collazo | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “bata drums”) |
| Olivier Congar | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “okonkolo”) |
| Luis Conte | Person | Male | Thousand Oaks | | instrument (as “bata”), instrument |
| Wilson "Chembo" Corniel | Person | Male | New York | | instrument (as “bata”) |
| Tomas Cruz | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Rubem Dantas | Person | Male | Brazil | | instrument (as “batás”) |
| Eric Darken | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Algie DeWitt | Person | | | | instrument |
| Jesús Díaz | Person | Male | Cuba | | instrument (as “Itotole”), instrument (as “Okónkolo”), instrument |
| Marcos H. Díaz | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Naomi Díaz | Person | Female | France | | instrument (as “batas”) |
| Román Díaz | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Yosvani Díaz | Person | Male | Cuba | | instrument |
| Kevin Diehl | Person | Male | Philadelphia | | instrument (as “Batá drums”), member of band |
| Frank van Dok | Person | | | | instrument (as “bata”) |
| Hamid Drake | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “bata”), member of band |
| Maximino Duquende | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Dreiser Durruthy | Person | | | | instrument |
| Baba Duru | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “bata”) |
| Harris Eisenstadt | Person | Male | Canada | | instrument (as “bata”) |
| Fernando Fabler | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “batá drums”) |
| José Fernández | Person | Male | Venezuela | | instrument (as “okónkolo”) |
| Michael Fisher | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Roger Fixy | Person | Male | Martinique | | instrument (as “iya”) |
| Martin Florès | Person | Male | France | | instrument |
| Lazaro Galarraga | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “bata”), instrument |
| Joe Gallardo | Person | Male | Germany | | instrument (as “bata blue”) |
| Ernest ''Lel Gato'' Gatell | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “batas”) |
| Davida Giovaninni | Person | | | | instrument (as “itotele”) |
| Gene Golden | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “bata”), instrument (as “iyá Bata”) |
| Carlos Gomez | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “iya”) |
| Jerry González | Person | Male | United States | 5 | instrument (as “kónkolo bata”) |
| Justin Gray | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “Batá”) |
| Aaron Gross | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Jos de Haas | Person | | | | instrument (as “bata”) |
| Juuso Hannukainen | Person | Male | Finland | | instrument (as “bata”) |
| Hector Hernandez | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “bata drums”) |
| Humberto Hernandez | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Rigo Herrera | Person | | | | instrument (as “okoncolo”) |
| Martin Hesselbach | Person | | Germany | | instrument |
| Giovanni Hidalgo | Person | Male | Puerto Rico | 5 | instrument (as “bata”), instrument (as “itotele”), instrument |
| Abi Holliday | | | | | instrument (as “itótele”) |
| James Hurt | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “okonkolo”) |
| Munyungo Jackson | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Chris Joris | Person | Male | Belgium | | instrument |
| カルロス菅野 | Person | Male | Japan | | instrument |
| Matt Kilmer | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “okonkolo”), member of band |
| Stefan Kruger | Person | Male | Netherlands | | instrument (as “bata”) |
| Michael Lennan | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “Okonkolo”) |
| James Mingo Lewis | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Irián "chinito" López | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “tambours batá”) |
| Lucumi | Person | | | | instrument (as “batas”) |
| Gabo Lugo | Person | | | | instrument |
| Frédéric Malempré | Person | Male | Belgium | | instrument |
| José Mangual Jr. | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “bata (okonkolo)”) |
| Maximino Duquesne Martínez | Person | Male | Cuba | | instrument |
| Harvey Mason | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Bobby Matos | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “bata”) |
| Anni McCann | Person | | | | instrument |
| Carlitos Medrano | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Jean Roberto San Miguel | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Isfa'ani Mustapha | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument (as “bata”) |
| Edgar Martinez Ochoa | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Rune Olesen | Person | Male | Denmark | | instrument (as “bata”) |
| Arturo "Ture" Oliva | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “bata'”) |
| Kristin Olson | Person | Female | Los Angeles | | instrument (as “bata”) |
| Orlando "Puntilla" Rios | Person | Male | Cuba | | instrument |
| Jon Otis | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Gustavo Ovalles | Person | Male | Venezuela | | instrument (as “batá drums”) |
| Dave Pattman | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument (as “lya”) |
| Moodi Peters | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Daniel Ponce | Person | Male | Cuba | | instrument (as “Bata”), instrument (as “ikonkolo”), instrument (as “iya”), instrument |
| Marc Quiñones | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “bata (itotele)”) |
| Pancho Quinto | Person | Male | Cuba | 5 | instrument (as “batas”) |
| Chacho Ramirez | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Gregorio Hernández Rios "Goyo" | Person | Male | Cuba | | instrument |
| Mauricio Rivalico | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “okonkolo”) |
| Rogelio Rivero | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Lázaro Rizo | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Abraham Rodriguez Mansfarroll | Person | Male | | | instrument |