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Tommy Torres
Tommy Torres creates the soundtrack of our lives!
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About the Show
Tommy Torres has a way with words and a way with melodies. What does that make him? Simply: an extraordinary musician. If not ask Ricardo Arjona, Alejandro Sanz, Juanes, Ricky Martin—to name just a very few—who have sought Tommy’s talents to help produce their music, in the process amassing a collection of Grammys for himself and giving millions the very best that Latin American Pop has to offer.
Now Tommy Torres is out with an incredible new solo album, “12 Historias”, a grouping of songs which he describes as being a mix between how he perceives the world and how he perceives people experiencing the world. A bit of urban philosophy or not, the truth is that Tommy’s new effort debuted #1 on the Latin Album charts and his new single, “Mientras Tanto” is the phenomenal spearhead of this success.
Don’t miss Tommy’s revealing interview and live concert recorded exclusively for Acceso Total! And don’t forget to pick up your copy of “12 Historias” at www.Walmart.com or at any of our stores nationwide!
-The Crew at Walmart Acceso Total
2 Historias: the new album
“It’s a pretty literal title for the album. Usually, we try to get these obscure, metaphorical titles for albums… I thought it should be really direct, because that’s what it is: twelve different stories. You could read them and still be entertained by them.”
About this new project
“The process of recording the album was fairly quick: we did it in about four months. The process of writing the songs wasn’t. I took a long time, just getting to the point where you really feel like things are flowing…. But once I got the songs, the recording of them was very spontaneous. I think the album has a very personal side to me, how I see the world, but also a side where I am a third person, a storyteller. It’s a lot of fun because you can say a lot of things that personally you probably be a little apprehensive…”
Mientras Tanto: the single
“It means in the meantime. Every time you turn on the news these days, there is something negative coming out. And also the vibe that I was getting from everybody: we are all waiting for that moment when everything is going to change and go back to normal, things are going to get better. But meanwhile, in the meantime, life goes on, and if we don’t live every moment, it goes away. So it’s a song about focusing on the present because that’s all there is. The past is gone, the future, who knows…”
Collaborations
“We didn’t start with the idea of having a lot of collaborations. But when we were in the middle of it, I got the idea of getting some of those old-fashioned cameos. These are people I know and have worked with in the past, like Ricky Martin, Alejandro Sanz, Juanes, Ednita Nazario… I had this idea: how about we do things like musicians. Let’s not tell the record companies, let’s not tell the managers, let’s just go with the flow, open the mics and let the lawyers handle it later, let’s have some fun!”
To have a Grammy…
I had been nominated before but the first time I got one was as a producer for Ricky Martin’s MTV-Unplugged. It’s a good feeling because it’s an award that your peers give you. It just feels really good, like your friends… like you!
Now Tommy Torres is out with an incredible new solo album, “12 Historias”, a grouping of songs which he describes as being a mix between how he perceives the world and how he perceives people experiencing the world. A bit of urban philosophy or not, the truth is that Tommy’s new effort debuted #1 on the Latin Album charts and his new single, “Mientras Tanto” is the phenomenal spearhead of this success.
Don’t miss Tommy’s revealing interview and live concert recorded exclusively for Acceso Total! And don’t forget to pick up your copy of “12 Historias” at www.Walmart.com or at any of our stores nationwide!
-The Crew at Walmart Acceso Total
2 Historias: the new album
“It’s a pretty literal title for the album. Usually, we try to get these obscure, metaphorical titles for albums… I thought it should be really direct, because that’s what it is: twelve different stories. You could read them and still be entertained by them.”
About this new project
“The process of recording the album was fairly quick: we did it in about four months. The process of writing the songs wasn’t. I took a long time, just getting to the point where you really feel like things are flowing…. But once I got the songs, the recording of them was very spontaneous. I think the album has a very personal side to me, how I see the world, but also a side where I am a third person, a storyteller. It’s a lot of fun because you can say a lot of things that personally you probably be a little apprehensive…”
Mientras Tanto: the single
“It means in the meantime. Every time you turn on the news these days, there is something negative coming out. And also the vibe that I was getting from everybody: we are all waiting for that moment when everything is going to change and go back to normal, things are going to get better. But meanwhile, in the meantime, life goes on, and if we don’t live every moment, it goes away. So it’s a song about focusing on the present because that’s all there is. The past is gone, the future, who knows…”
Collaborations
“We didn’t start with the idea of having a lot of collaborations. But when we were in the middle of it, I got the idea of getting some of those old-fashioned cameos. These are people I know and have worked with in the past, like Ricky Martin, Alejandro Sanz, Juanes, Ednita Nazario… I had this idea: how about we do things like musicians. Let’s not tell the record companies, let’s not tell the managers, let’s just go with the flow, open the mics and let the lawyers handle it later, let’s have some fun!”
To have a Grammy…
I had been nominated before but the first time I got one was as a producer for Ricky Martin’s MTV-Unplugged. It’s a good feeling because it’s an award that your peers give you. It just feels really good, like your friends… like you!
The Band
Did you know?
• His birth-name is Tomás Torres Carrasquillo and was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• He studied musical production and engineering at the prestigious Berkley College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.
• He has collaborated with Ricardo Arjona, Ricky Martin, Ednita Nazario, Alejandro Sanz, Juanes, Alicia Keys, among many other famed artists, and for this work he was won multiple Grammys.
• He was named “#1 Hot Latin Tracks Producer” in 2007 by Billboard magazine,and “Composer of the Year” at the 2010 ASCAP Latin Music Awards.
• In 2009, along a few other artists, he became the face of the spring/summer ad-campaign for Banana Republic.
• His birth-name is Tomás Torres Carrasquillo and was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• He studied musical production and engineering at the prestigious Berkley College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.
• He has collaborated with Ricardo Arjona, Ricky Martin, Ednita Nazario, Alejandro Sanz, Juanes, Alicia Keys, among many other famed artists, and for this work he was won multiple Grammys.
• He was named “#1 Hot Latin Tracks Producer” in 2007 by Billboard magazine,and “Composer of the Year” at the 2010 ASCAP Latin Music Awards.
• In 2009, along a few other artists, he became the face of the spring/summer ad-campaign for Banana Republic.
The Set List
Mientras Tanto
“Just look around, see all the wondering faces. Old people look at ease because they know that everything is relative and that to feel in fear is bad for business”. This is the song that perhaps best encapsulates where its author is in life: present. It’s a soft melody that sticks with you and teaches you to slow down and enjoy what you have today.
11:11
An electric guitar shouts out a whining sound from far away throughout this fantastic song, framed by elements of the blues and the acoustic ballad. Tommy, very much in love, confesses: “10:00am, I wake up beside you. How lucky am I to wake up here next to you.”
Querido Tommy
The origin of this song is as unlikely as can be: Paco, a young man from Santiago, Chile, writes to Tommy (in real life it happened through Twitter) asking for help to find the right words to get the girl he loves. “Dear Tommy, I write this letter to you… I don’t know if you even read these letters.” The answer is yes, Paco, Tommy does read the letters and sometimes he turns the best ones into beautiful songs. Go figure!
Tarde o Temprano
Echoes from the love anthems of the 80’s—piano and synthesizer—this song has a very good chance to become an anthem as well with its pride-ridden lyrics and upbeat spirit: “I know you use him to play tricks on my mind, but you know that sooner or later you will fall right back to me…”
Pegadito
“Everything I desire I have found in you, wrapped around your waist, very close,” says Tommy in this ultimate love ballad. This is not a case of lost loves, or loves that are missed, but love that has been found and kept: genuine joy about being together and not apart.
¿Cómo olvidar?
“I know you suffer, ever since you left to be with him. How to forget your eyes if they look at me from the picture you hung on the wall.” This song explores the immediate moment after the separation of a couple that has been together for, probably, a very long time: picture-frames on the wall sound more like divorce than anything else, but Tommy keeps the mood light with rhythmic chords and beautiful melody: things are not that bad.
“Just look around, see all the wondering faces. Old people look at ease because they know that everything is relative and that to feel in fear is bad for business”. This is the song that perhaps best encapsulates where its author is in life: present. It’s a soft melody that sticks with you and teaches you to slow down and enjoy what you have today.
11:11
An electric guitar shouts out a whining sound from far away throughout this fantastic song, framed by elements of the blues and the acoustic ballad. Tommy, very much in love, confesses: “10:00am, I wake up beside you. How lucky am I to wake up here next to you.”
Querido Tommy
The origin of this song is as unlikely as can be: Paco, a young man from Santiago, Chile, writes to Tommy (in real life it happened through Twitter) asking for help to find the right words to get the girl he loves. “Dear Tommy, I write this letter to you… I don’t know if you even read these letters.” The answer is yes, Paco, Tommy does read the letters and sometimes he turns the best ones into beautiful songs. Go figure!
Tarde o Temprano
Echoes from the love anthems of the 80’s—piano and synthesizer—this song has a very good chance to become an anthem as well with its pride-ridden lyrics and upbeat spirit: “I know you use him to play tricks on my mind, but you know that sooner or later you will fall right back to me…”
Pegadito
“Everything I desire I have found in you, wrapped around your waist, very close,” says Tommy in this ultimate love ballad. This is not a case of lost loves, or loves that are missed, but love that has been found and kept: genuine joy about being together and not apart.
¿Cómo olvidar?
“I know you suffer, ever since you left to be with him. How to forget your eyes if they look at me from the picture you hung on the wall.” This song explores the immediate moment after the separation of a couple that has been together for, probably, a very long time: picture-frames on the wall sound more like divorce than anything else, but Tommy keeps the mood light with rhythmic chords and beautiful melody: things are not that bad.
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