Zone d'identification
Nom et localisation du dépôt
Niveau de description
Collection
Titre
Roberto Torres papers
Date(s)
- 1979-1990 (Production)
Importance matérielle
3 Boxes
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
Roberto Torres (1940-) began his music career in his hometown of Güines, Cuba at an early age. In 1959, Torres emigrated to the United States where he continued his music career, starting the Orquesta Broadway in New York City in 1963. His major break came in 1965 when he signed on as singer for the Latin band, Sonora Matancera.
In the 1970s, Torres embarked on his solo carreer and founded Guajiro Records in 1973. In later life, Torres organized and played lead for the Miami-basedband, Roberto Torres y su Orquesta.
Torres is credited with inventing the charanga-vallenta, a style of Latin music blending the traditional rythms of the Cuban charangaand the Colombian vallento. He is perhaps most known for the hit 1980 rendition of Simón Díaz's Venezuelan folksong, Caballo Viejo, done in the charanga-vallenata style.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
The Roberto Torres papers contains scrapbooks covering the performing and recording career of Cuban musician Roberto Torres (1940-) in the United States. The scrapbooks contain photographs, newspaper clippings on his tours, shows, and musical releases, programs from his live events, and other memorabilia.
Mode de classement
The scrapbooks have been maintained in their orignal order.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
This collection is open for research.
Accès physique
Accès technique
Conditions de reproduction
Requests to publish or display materials from this collection require written permission from the rights owner. Please contact chc@miami.edu for more information.
Preferred citation: Roberto Torres Papers, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida.
Langue des documents
- anglais
- espagnol
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Instruments de recherche
Éléments d'acquisition et d'évaluation
Historique de la conservation
Source immédiate d'acquisition
Gift of Roberto Torres, 2014.