Yomo Toro

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

Life and work

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