Victor Guillermo Toro (born in Ensenada, Puerto Rico on July 26, 1933) is a guitarist and one of Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

's most famous cuatro

Cuatro (instrument)

The cuatro is any of several Latin American instruments of the guitar or lute family. The cuatro is smaller than a guitar. Cuatro means four in Spanish, although current instruments may have more than four strings....

 players. Toro is probably best known for performing the opening theme song to the 1971 Woody Allen

Woody Allen

Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...

 film Bananas

Bananas (film)

Bananas is a 1971 comedy film written by Mickey Rose and Woody Allen, directed by Allen, and starring himself and Louise Lasser. Parts of the plot were based on the book Don Quixote, U.S.A. by Richard P. Powell. It was filmed on location in New York City, Lima , and various locations in Puerto...

, and for his contributions to various Willie Colón

Willie Colón

William Anthony Colón is a Nuyorican salsa musician. Primarily a trombonist, Colón also sings, writes, produces and acts. He is also involved in municipal politics in New York City.-Early years:...

 and Héctor Lavoe

Héctor Lavoe

Héctor Juan Pérez Martínez , better known as Héctor Lavoe, was a Puerto Rican salsa singer. Lavoe was born and raised in the Machuelito sector of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Early in his life, he attended a local music school and developed an interest inspired by Jesús Sánchez Erazo. He moved to New York...

's albums, particularly the by-now classic "Asalto Navideño" and "Feliz Navidad". Yomo Toro composed only one song for Fania label "El Lechon de Cachete" about himself.

Yomo Toro, who has recorded with major artists such as Cuban legend Arsenio Rodríguez

Arsenio Rodríguez

Arsenio Rodríguez was a Cuban musician who played the tres , reorganized the conjunto and developed the son montuno, and other Afro-Cuban rhythms in the 1940s and 50s...

and Arsenio's bassist Alfonso "El Panameño" Joseph at the Palladium New York Nightclub. Toro also played at El Teatro Puerto Rico

Teatro Puerto Rico

The Teatro Puerto Rico was to the Latino community in the South Bronx what the Apollo Theater was to the African American community in the Harlem section of Manhattan. During its 1940s to 1950s "golden era," it was the hub of la farándula, a vaudeville-style package of Spanish-language events, and...

 in the Bronx. There, singer and composer Miguel Poventud

Miguel Poventud

Miguel Poventud a.k.a. "El Niño Prodigio de Guayama" and "Miguelito" , was a Puerto Rican musician, singer, actor and composer of Boleros...

 sang Rock 'n Roll in English and boleros in Spanish with Yomo Toro y su Conjunto.

Yomo Toro is one of artists featured in a major television production about the era of Afro-Cuban music at the Palladium in New York "La Epoca."
He is of the Toro (Touro) family of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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