Awards & Winners

Nestor Torres

Date of Birth 25-April-1957
Place of Birth Mayagüez
(Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Metropolitan Statistical Area, United States, with Territories, 00682)
Nationality Puerto Rico
Also know as Torres, Nestor
Profession Flautist
Néstor Torres is a jazz flautist born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, in 1957. He took flute lessons at age 12 and began formal studies at the Escuela Libre de Música, eventually attending Puerto Rico’s Inter-American University. At 18, he moved to New York with his family. Torres went on to study both jazz and classical music at the Mannes College of Music in New York and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, among other places. He moved to Miami in 1981, and signed with PolyGram, where he released Morning Ride in 1989. His major label debut climbed quickly to the top of the Billboard Contemporary Jazz charts and soon brought him widespread acclaim. Tragedy struck a year later when an accident in a celebrity boat race left him with eighteen fractured ribs, two broken clavicles and a collapsed lung. His record company dropped him, he and his wife divorced, and his home was nearly repossessed. Torres is also a longtime practitioner of Nichiren Buddhism of the Sōka Gakkai International. In 2007, Torres played at the World Music Concert during One World Week 2007, in front of a full house, at the University of Warwick. On March 21, 2009, he played in Herbst Theatre in San Francisco in performance "Tango Meets Jazz" with Pablo Ziegler.

Awards by Nestor Torres

Check all the awards nominated and won by Nestor Torres.

2009


Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Latin Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album Nouveau Latino

2008


Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album Nouveau Latino

2003


Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Latin Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Album Mi Alma Latina (My Latin Soul)

2001


Latin Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Album
Honored for : This Side of Paradise

Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Latin Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Album This Side of Paradise