• Submitted by: manso
• Arts and Culture
• 09 / 28 / 2010

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David Torrens is a singer-songwriter whose songs are the result of several sources: the Brazilian music, the rock, the Cuban trova, the boleros and also, all the Cuban sound richness.

As a result of the fusion of all those rhythms, his style cannot be classified into a single genre, though it is one of the most interesting proposals of the new generation of Cuban singers.

Torrens was born in 1968 at the Havana’s municipality of Guanabacoa, renowned for its musical traditions and the strong presence of the African culture.

Surrounded by drumbeats, since he was a child he was fascinated by those rhythms and chords. For that reason, he enrolled the “Guillermo Tomás” Elementary Arts School, where he studied till the age of 14.

However, his subsequent education was a lot different from the previous one, as he later on studied at a Military High School and got his university diploma as a Mechanic Engineer.

Still, he was linked to music. Guitar in hand, he played in his free times and at the age of 15, he joined the Canto Libre group as a keyboard player, with which he wrote his first songs.

After leaving that group and once he finished his university studies, his songs started to excel among the group of young artists that created a movement known as “Guanabacoa’s Case”.

In 1995, he signed a contract with the Mexican Record Company EMI Music and he then moved in to the capital of that country, where his first disc “Mi poquita fe” was edited in 1998.

From then on, David Torrens became popular in Cuba thanks to the video-clip of “Sentimientos ajenos”, granted the ERES Award to the most popular song of the year.

His second album, “Ni de aquí, ni de allá”, where he once again used a sound fusion with a pop-rock soundtrack, was presented in 2001.

Again, thanks to the video-clip of “Quién me quiere a mí”, he climbed up the Cuban hit parades.

In January 2003, he took part in the anthological presentation of the Habana Abierta group, at the Salón Rosado de la Tropical.

David Torrens spent the last years between Mexico and Havana, till in 2010 he presented “Razones”, this time with the Cuban Record Company Bis Music.

The expectations his audience had for new songs was rewarded with a mature, powerful and hypnotic sound, plus the luxury collaborations of Pablo Milanés and Kelvis Ochoa.

That disc received a Cubadisco Award, the Cuban equivalent to the American Grammy, in the fusion category.

After more than two decades of entertaining the audience with his music and talent, David Torrens has joined the best Cuban voices.

With lyrics about love, sex, disappointment, remoteness and daily life, in addition to a combination of rhythms and styles, Torrens shows in his work the musical tradition of the country, now resized to new horizons.

Source: Cubanow