Alvaro Torres in Santiago de Cuba

Salvadorian crooner Alvaro Torres sang in Santiago de Cuba for the first time in his long and successful career, a performance that will be encored at the Mariana Grajales Amphitheater as part of his tour across eastern Cuba.

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In his televised remarks, the popular singer said this is a special moment in his 30-plus-year career that has been marked by a large array of love songs written mostly by him and some of them linked to personal experiences.

He showed great satisfaction that many of his tunes are now being sung by such world-class performers as Miriam Hernandez, Mexico’s Dulce, Jose Luis Rodriguez (El Puma), Sergio Vargas, Paloma San Basilio, Rocio Durcal and other Latin American and Spanish acts.

His concerts in eastern Cuba will be accompanied by the Youth Symphonic Orchestra of the Esteban Salas Conservatory, made up of a bevy of young and talented performers.  

Mr. Torres said he’ll be performing many of his repertoire’s most celebrated love songs, plus four cuts from his latest album entitled Otra Vida (Another Life) that he hopes to garner good acclaim in the audience.

The outstanding crooner will continue the Cuba grand tour he started back in December 2013 in Havana and took him to Varadero, Cienfuegos, Artemisa and Pinar del Rio in 2014, and now on to Bayamo, Santiago de Cuba and Holguin this time around.