Elementos de identidade
Nome e localização da entidade custodiadora
Nível de descrição
Coleção
Título
Roberto Torres papers
Data(s)
- 1979-1990 (Produção)
Dimensão
3 Boxes
Nome do produtor
História biográfica
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.
Elementos de conteúdo e estrutura
Âmbito e conteúdo
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.
Sistema de arranjo
The scrapbooks have been maintained in their orignal order.
Condições de acesso e uso dos elementos
Condições de acesso
This collection is open for research.
Acesso físico
Acesso técnico
Condiçoes de reprodução
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.
Idiomas do material
- inglês
- espanhol
Escrita do material
Notas ao idioma e script
Instrumentos de descrição
Elementos de aquisição e avaliação
História custodial
Fonte imediata de aquisição
Gift of Roberto Torres, 2014.