Barbarito Torres

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Cuba

Active from

1956

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

19,744

Total plays

102,522

While well-versed in many different styles, Torres has strong ties to guajiro, a form of Cuban peasant or country music. He even uses a traditional instrument—the laúd, which is a type of lute with 12 strings. Torres joined the group Serenata Yumunina in 1970, but he left a few years later to serve in the Cuban army. In the army, he played jazz with its jazz orchestra and was a member of the marching band. Torres later settled in Havana and worked with many of Cuban's top performers as a sessi

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,903x

2. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,704x

3. GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

   · 2017 · cited 8,264x

4. Inferring tumour purity and stromal and immune cell admixture from expression data

   · 2013 · cited 7,926x

5. <i>Gaia</i> Data Release 2

   · 2018 · cited 7,447x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Family name

Torres

Gender

male

Citizenship

Cuba

Place of birth

Matanzas

Occupation

music educator

Instrument

laúd

Image

Buena Vista Social Club ZMF 2015 IMGP8914.jpg

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