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Biography
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Joe Torres
Effective period / Period of releases: 1967
Latin jazz / boogaloo percussionist (timbales), songwriter and orchestra leader, he grew up in Spanish Harlem, began as timbalero in his 10, moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1950s, where he recorded his only album "Latino Con Soul" in 1966, he retired from music in the '70s.Do not confuse with NY based salsa pianist José Torres
nor with Puerto Rican salsa composer, singer Joe Torres