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Yomo Toro at a jazz club in New York City in 2000. Though firmly grounded in Puerto Rican musical tradition, Yomo Toro's style was extremely textured and eclectic. As a studio musician for hundreds of album releases, he also played Latin jazz, classical guitar, bluegrass, and even R&B.
Jul 2, 2012 · Yomo Toro, a force in New York’s Latin music scene since the 1950s and a virtuosic left-handed player of the cuatro, a mandolinlike Puerto Rican instrument, died in the Bronx on Saturday. He was...
Oct 20, 2008 · Yomo Toro, el gran senor, living legend, born in Puerto Rico and plays the steel stringed guitar, the cuartro, indigenous to Puerto Rico. Yomo, who just turned 75, was the first to play that ...
But what we’re hearing isn’t a guitar; it’s a cuatro—a stringed instrument from Puerto Rico—and the man behind this intense and virtuosic solo is Yomo Toro. Born on July 26, 1933, in Guánica, Puerto Rico, Víctor Guillermo “Yomo” Toro is one of the most celebrated Puerto Rican cuatro players.
``Part of a major rush of album work by Yomo Toro in the '80s and '90s, Funky Jibaro is a very nice LP of basic Puerto Rican traditional music and salsa, wit...
Jul 2, 2012 · Yomo Toro was a renowned cuatro guitar player, who played with legends of the Latin music universe, such as pianist Larry Harlow, the Fania All Stars, and superstar jibaro vocalist Hector Lavoe. With his cuatro guitar, Yomo Toro performed salsa music as well as jibaro (rural Puerto Rican music).
Jul 2, 2012 · Yomo Toro, King of the Cuatro, Dead at 78. Master of the cuatro, the guitar with five pairs of strings often called the national instrument of Puerto Rico, Yomo Toro brought traditional...
Jul 13, 2024 · After more than sixty years bringing the national instrument of Puerto Rico into prominence around the world, the internationally renown guitarist often referred to as the King of the Cuatro, Yomo Toro.
May 8, 2017 · Yomo Toro, a cultural icon for 50 years, was one of Latin music's most beloved musicians. Victor Guillermo Toro was born on July 26, 1933 in the Guarnica province of Puerto Rico in Ensenada, where a statue of him now stands in the town square.
Jul 4, 2012 · Yomo Toro, a force in New York’s Latin music scene since the 1950s and a virtuosic left-handed player of the cuatro, a mandolinlike Puerto Rican instrument, died in the Bronx on Saturday. He was 78, Ben Ratliff writes in this obituary for The New York Times.
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