Jose Torres

José Torres (born 19 September 1958, Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-Polish musician and percussionist. A graduate of the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music, Torres was a founder of the first Polish salsa orchestra under the name José Torres y Salsa Tropical.From the very beginning of his stay in Poland (except for a period of several years), he has lived in Wrocław.He has a wife Iza and sons Tomasz (drummer for Afromental) and Filip.He authored an autobiography: Salsa na wolności (ISBN: 8373845941, Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, 2006).