Diego Torres

Diego Torre's Un Mundo Diferente album cover

Diego Antonio Caccia Torres (born March 9, 1971 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine pop singer and composer. His mother was the Argentine singer Lolita Torres.

Biography

In 1991, Diego Torres' music career began with a band called "La Marca." Later, he began his first steps on TV starring in the successful TV series "La Banda del Golden Rocket" which stayed on air for three years.

In 1992, he launched his first album, "Diego Torres," produced by Cachorro López. This album was rewarded 3 times platinum. Two years later, and a little distant from TV, he launched his second album called "Tratar de estar mejor" which received 5 platinum albums in Argentina and gold and platinum albums in other Latin American countries. This album launched Torres to the international scene.

In 1996, the Italian producer Ceso Valli produced Torres' third album, "Luna Nueva", and months later Diego started touring with his band all across Latin America, United States, and Spain. The album went on sale, soon becoming gold and quickly being rewarded with the platinum in Argentina.

In 1999, he recorded his fourth album called "Tal Cual Es", produced by Cachorro López. This album showed Diego's talent and creativity to compose and mix different Latin sounds, such as flamenco guitars as well as various other tropical sounds.

His next album was named "Un Mundo Diferente" which was recorded in the second half of 2001 in Buenos Aires and Miami. This album presents a variety of styles and merges with several Latin rhythm styles in most songs, such as in his most successful song so far, "Color Esperanza", which stayed at the top of the Argentine Singles/Airplay Chart for twelve consecutive weeks.

2004 brought a new challenge to Diego: the possibility of recording an MTV Unplugged, which would be aired in the MTV networks of Brazil, Latin America, Spain and United States. The reconversion of the acoustical in some of his hits along with the presentation of his new themes are part of this show, which is also produced on CD and DVD.

Torres' newest album, Andando has various release dates across the world. All in 2006, Argentina got the album on July 25 while the other release dates are as follows:

• United States - August 15
• Spain - August 29
• Latin America - September 8

The album's first single Abriendo Caminos is a duet featuring the popular Dominican singer-songwriter Juan Luis Guerra.

In 2005 he received the Konex Award as best Argentine male pop/ballad singer, shared with Sandro.

Discography

• La Marca (1991)
• Diego Torres (1992)
• Tratar de Estar Mejor (1994)
• Luna Nueva (1996)
• Tal Cual Es (1999)
• Un Mundo Diferente (2001)
• MTV Unplugged (2004)
• Andando (2006)

Trivia

In August 2006, Diego Torres appeared on the cover of the Mexican magazine Open.

See also

• List of singer-songwriters

External links

• Official Site
• Diego Torres fan page
• Diego Torres - Interview to Diagonal (Spanish)

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