Barbarito Torres

Barbarito Torres
Barbarito Torres performing live on Zelt-Musik-Festival in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 6 July 2015
Background information
Birth nameBárbaro Alberto Torres Delgado
Also known asBarbarito Torres
Born1956 (age 67–68)
Matanzas, Cuba
Genrespunto guajiro
OccupationMusician
InstrumentLaúd
Barbarito Torres and Carlos Calunga performing with Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club in 2012.

Bárbaro Alberto Torres Delgado (born 1956), better known as Barbarito Torres, is a Cuban musician best known for his work with the Afro-Cuban All Stars and the Buena Vista Social Club since 1996.[1] Torres plays the laúd, a traditional Cuban instrument of the lute family that is most associated with the punto guajiro genre. He continues to tour with Buena Vista Social Club as one of the last surviving original members and has recorded several solo albums, the last of which, Vámonos pa'l monte, was released in 2016.

  1. ^ Buena Vista Social Club : Musicians. Publisher: PBS