Elsten Torres

Elsten Creole Torres, in Havana, Cuba as Listoriel Leyva Torres, is a singersongwriterproducer. He grew up in New York City with his mother and older brother leaving his father in Cuba as a political prisoner. He was lead singer and songwriter for the American Latin Rock band, Fulano de Tal. After the breakup of the band, Elsten has continued both his own career as a solo artist and has had success writing for other wellknown performers such as Ricky Martin, Luis Fonsi, Obie Bermdez, Alejandra Guzmn, Julio Iglesias, Jr. Aleks Syntek, Oscar de Leon, Marshall Crenshaw, John Rich and many others. He has been nominated for two Grammy Awards. The second Grammy nomination was for his first solo independent album, Individual. He has won several BMI music awards for his songwriting. He is on the board of governors for NARAS. Elsten studied communications arts at New York Institute of Technology. Elsten is currently living in Miami Florida. Elsten also works with charity organizations such as

Elsten Torres was born in Havana, Cuba during the height of the Cuban Revolution. His father Emigdio Torres was already a political prisoner when Elsten was born. His mother Elsa Torres, left Cuba when Elsten was only a year and half old with his older brother Dorian E. Torres age five at the time, and arrived in New York City. It was in New York that Elsten began his love for music. One of his uncles, Listoriel Torres, was a singersongwriter who had some success back in Havana, would always sing his songs about Cuba at family gatherings. Elsten began seriously learning the guitar at the age of twelve. By the time he was sixteen, he was in his first rock band named Refugee with some of his local neighborhood friends. At one show, the lead singer never made it, so Elsten was asked to take the role of lead singer as well as lead guitarist, and from that moment on, his love for singing began. He wrote his first song at the age of sixteen from a love note he found on the floor of his high

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