Liz
@liztorresthequeenofhouse
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chicago, il USA
Joined Nov 11, 2009
Arguably the Queen of House, Liz Torres was born in Puerto Rico in the early '60s and moved with her family to Chicago just three years later. She sang in her church while growing up but converted to house music in 1985 after hearing it on the street. After several singles in the late '80s, "Touch of Love" appeared on Britain's Black Market label in 1988. The classic track caught the eye of Jive Records, which signed Torres to a contract the same year but her album The Queen Is in the House wasn't released until 1990 and Jive refused to promote it stating she was ahead of her time. Liz Torres then recorded "Out of My Life" for the Streetside label and all but disappeared until the mid-'90s, when she staged a major comeback with "Set Urself Free," on Radikal Records. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide. Latin house is an electronic dance music subgenre that mixes together house and Latin American music, such as that of Brazilian, Cuban and Colombian origin. In the second half of the 1980s, some the pioneers of house music of Latin-American descent gave birth to this genre by releasing house records in Spanish. Early examples include "Amor puertoriqueño" by Raz on DJ International and "Break 4 Love" by Raze. However, the undisputed queen without a crown was the American-Puerto Rican singer Liz Torres, who released Spanish versions of her songs "Can't Get Enough", "Mama's Boy" and "Payback Is A Bitch". In the 1990s a new generation of producers and labels broke into the marketOne very popular misconception is the belief that disco died with the 1970s. The truth is that disco simply changed its name to "dance music" in the '80s and evolved into such styles as house, Hi-NRG (high energy) and Latin freestyle. A sassy disco diva with a sharp tongue, Torres is one of the top house artists of the 1980s and early '90s. She never did much on either pop or Black radio, but in clubs, Torres was highly regarded. The Queen's In the House is a dance-floor extravaganza that many were hoping for, the CD has many choice cuts, including the angry "Payback Is a Bitch (What Goes Around Comes Around)," the intoxicating "Love Temptation" and the haunting "I Hear Voices (Voices Inside My Head)." But the disc's most impressive offering is the driving "If You Keep It Up," which draws on LaBelle's 1975 classic "Messing' With My Mind." This 1990 release was produced by the Robert Clivillies/David Cole team, which was burning up the charts at the time as C&C Music Factory.
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