Carmelo Torres

Colombian musician who plays accordion and sings (often with Los Toscos). He was born and raised in the San Jacinto area of Colombia, home of traditional cumbia and vallenato, He has been playing the accordion since his was very young He learned to play Vallenato first, by himself, before he met his teacher, Andrés Landero and started to play Cumbias He is considered a representative of the San Jacinto accordion-led Cumbia style he inherited from Landero.