Who is Tomasito Cruz?

Tomasito Cruz changed into born in Havana and from a completely young age proved his skills in song. A gifted musician, singer and song creator Tomasito turned into raised in Pinar del Rio, Cuba where he attended a vocational college for the Arts from the talented Tomasito become recruited via top Cuban band, Paulito FG y Su Elite. After a couple of years of touring internationally with the famous band, he chose to are seeking exile in Miami at the same time as the band turned into acting on US territory.

Miami becomes welcoming to Tomasito’s talent and pretty promptly he changed into earning a living in South Florida as a musician. Holding down more than one job, at some point in the day he has done as the conga player along with the house band on a TV and at night time he turned into every day at a Miami Beach club.

His skills become quickly identified by means of the well-known age of 8. At age 14 he changed into admitted to the prestigious National School of Arts in Havana. With prodigal competencies in the track, he studied piano, trombone, and percussion, as well as vocals.

By the age of 19, n Celia Cruz took him in as her orchestra’s conga player. As the youngest member of the band, Celia Cruz and her husband and supervisor Pedro Knight served as position fashions for the younger artist.

Pedro Knight often cautioned Tomasito to “jump higher” and taking Pedro’s words to heart, he was soon accompanying a few of the most important names in the Latin music enterprise appearing with Willy Chirino, Israel Lopez “Cachao,” and ultimately taking part in a 4-year tenure with Arturo Sandoval.

In the span of decades, Tomasito has authored three international best-selling books of tune. His titles consist of The Tomas Cruz Conga Method Volume 1 Beginners, Volume 2 Intermediate and Volume three Advanced. All of them are followed with the aid of an educational DVD.

Tomasito has received five Grammy nominations and is a four-time-Grammy-winning recording artist for his participation inside the productions of Arturo Sandoval’s “Rumba Palace,’ Willy Chirino’s “Son del alma,” and Alejandro Sanz’s “No es lo Mismo.” “Candela” became his first album as a solo singer, songwriter, and manufacturer and become nominated in Spain as the nice album of Cuban song in 2010.

Tomasito, stimulated by using his love for the various rhythms located in his local island is happy for the approaching release of his maximum latest album, “I Am Cuba.” In this modern-day journey, Tomasito fuses the numerous beats enjoyed for the duration of Cuba with a fresh but glorious strength that best expertise like his can achieve