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Barbarito Torres is recognized as the world?s leading lute player. He has one of the participants in the Buena Vista Social Club album.
Torres recorded his first solo album, Havana Caf? in 1999. It became one of the most successful and critically acclaimed Cuban releases of the last decade. His style of music reflects the musical folklore of his native Cuba, the genre known as m?sica guajira or the blues of the Cuban countryside. His latest musical offering, Barbarito Torres, includes songs from all genres of Cuban music, striking a balance between joyful traditionalism and adventurous innovation.
In 2004, several Cuban Grammy nominees, including Barbarito Torres, applied for visa permits to enter the United States to attend the Grammy Awards scheduled for February 8th. In a rebuff to their request, the U.S. Government denied these artists entrance based on *212 (f), the so-called Reagan Proclamation. This law gives the executive branch absolute discretion to exclude visa applicants if their presence in the United States ?would be detrimental to national interests?.
Artists such as Barbarito Torres, Ibrahim Ferrer, Amadito Valdes, and Guillermo Rubalcaba were told to stay home rather than to participate in a cultural exchange program with the United States in celebration of the arts. According to the Reagan Proclamation, these entertainers were classified as a threat to security. |
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