Biography Of Alvaro Torres

Born on April 9 in Concepción Batres, Usulutan, El Salvador. Since childhood Alvaro Torres accurately defined what was to be in life. "It was a" cock "when he started cantar.1

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Descended from a poor family from a very small and showed his talent was then that between the decade of the 1980 presentations began as a singer, but for lack of support at home traveled toGuatemala to search for the victory, achieved in the 90 consolidate its popularity. Among his best known songs include "Chiquita Mia", "Nothing compares to you", "I've been waiting for you" and "From end to end," among others. He has even sung a duet with three Mexican singers, including Marisela, with the song "My love for you", Tatiana, with whom he recorded "I want to go back to your side", and Selena,who played "good friends". In addition, he recorded with José Feliciano in 2005, on a CD in honor of Juan Gabriel. Throughout his career he has won many gold and platinum discs.

During the years from 1988 to 1998 was at the Hot Latin Tracks Billboard 20 songs, of which "Nothing compares to you" went to # 1 in the year 1992, his first song on the billboard was "Make me forget" which reached # 7in 1988, his last song was "The Last Romantic," which hit # 12 in 1998. He came to sing to her country El Salvador on January 16, 2007 by 15 years of the peace agreements in that country, has a star on the famous Calle 8, which gave it in 2002.

In August 2008 had a car accident in El Salvador during the taping of his show "Reunion with Alvaro Torres". He was hospitalized for one day for minorwounds and bruises he had suffered. After this, decided to give his life to Jesus and became a Christian, publishing his new album "Very Personal" in 2009 and was nominated in the category gramis latino Christian album.

Alvaro Torres is considered one of the most recognized songwriters Salvadoran international and even became famous while living in Guatemala, was in his homeland, along theLempa River, where he discovered his talent for singing.

The first song he wrote was titled "Sweet Friend" and wrote it at 12 years old, inspired by a childhood friend that allowed him to watch TV at home. Thereafter, she became the main source of inspiration for this romantic singer.

His parents, Maria del Carmen Torres and Jose Ibarra Germain separated when he was two years old and despite notgrowing up with his father, a violinist who has been until recently, was he who inherited the talent and passion for music.

In the early 70's, Alvaro, which accomplice of love, began his musical career by putting serenades for lovers, in his native El Salvador and in 1975 emigrated to Guatemala in search of new opportunities, and got them. He began his journey in foreign lands singing inrestaurants and clubs of that country, which became their new home for the next 10 years.

In the same year Rhodes Pepe, director of Radio Corporation, and Alvaro who met at one of the restaurants where he sang, invited him to production studios to record the demo that would change the course of his life.

While in school, Rhodes gave an instrumental album of the Orchestra by Franck Pourcel and aletter he had written to that tune. Alvaro asked to try to synchronize your voice over the music, and record a demo for presentation at the American record label Discos (DILA).

A few weeks later they were granted an interview with the president of that label, Augusto Diaz-Duran, with whom they signed a contract to record his first LP album.

In December of that year began recording his firstalbum titled "Something Special," which began to be heard on stations across the country.

Later the singer participated in various singing competitions as Festibuga, held in Colombia in 1976, The Voice and Song in San Juan Puerto Rico in 1977, OTI, in Chile in 1979, among others.

While living in Guatemala Alvaro recorded his first albums entitled "Touch me", "Too bad", "What good is love...