Featured in the recordings of the 1998 Grammy-winning Buena Vista Social Club album as well as Afro Cuban All Stars, Barbarito Torres is widely regarded as the world’s most celebrated virtuoso lute player. He has remained true to the musical folklore of his native Cuba-the genre known as musica guajira, or the blues of the Cuban countryside. He expresses a modern sophisticated, but authentically traditional style, more likely to be found in a rural hamlet deep in his beloved countryside, than in urban Havana, where he now resides. His musical expression continues to reflect the gutsy, heartfelt outcry of his true origin and upbringing, since he remains after all a true guajiro, or country man.

With sales topping 100,000 units for his debut recording, Havana Cafe, then his Grammy nominated self-titled album, Barbarito Torres (©2003 Havana Caliente Records) and now rekindled anticipation in the United States, Torres and his full band are planning a US tour for Spring 2011. This will mark their first US tour in over eight years!