Yomo Toro

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Yomo Toro, 2012

Yomo Toro (actually Victor Guillermo Toro Vega Ramos Rodríguez Acosta , born July 26, 1933 in Ensenada , Guánica , Puerto Rico ; † June 30, 2012 in the Bronx , New York City ) was a Puerto Rican musician of Latin jazz , the guitar and Cuatro played.

Life

Yomo Toro's father Alberto was a truck driver and was a cuatro player in a band in which Yomo gained his first musical experience at parties and played Requinto and Cuatro as a child . As a teenager he moved to San Juan to play in the band Los Quatro Ases , led by singer Bury Cabán. He first came to New York with the group in 1953, where he finally moved in 1957. Toro first played traditional Puerto Rican and Mexican music, accompanying singers such as Odilio González and Victor Rolón Santiago, as well as with the Trio Los Panchos . From the late 1960s, he also appeared on television programs on New York Channel 41 , such as El Show de Yomo Toro . He worked in the New York salsa and Latin scene since the 1960s, a . a. with Willie Colón , Héctor Lavoe , Larry Harlow , Ismael Rivera , Cheo Feliciano , Tipica 73 and the Fania All-Stars , with whom he recorded two solo albums, Romantico and Musico Para El Mundo Entero . In 1987, Funky Jibaro was created for the Antilles label in collaboration with producer Verna Gillis . He also appeared on the soundtrack of the Woody Allen film Bananas (1971), the Rubén Blades film Crossover Dreams (1985) and the music for the children's television show Dora the Explorer ; he also played as a session musician with Harry Belafonte , Paul Simon , David Byrnes Rei Momo (1989) and Linda Ronstadt's Frenesi (1992). In 2007 he worked with jazz trombonist Roswell Rudd ( El Espiritu Jíbaro ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ben Ratliff : Yomo Toro, Virtuoso of Latin Music, Dies at 78 Obituary in The New York Times
personal data
SURNAME Toro, Yomo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Acosta, Victor Guillermo Toro Vega Ramos Rodríguez (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Puerto Rican Latin Jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Ensenada , Guánica , Puerto Rico
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 2012
Place of death New York City