Liz Torres is tagged as: house, dance, chicago, chicago house, acid
LIZ TORRES The hard Liz Torres has fascinated underground club music ever since 1986 when her first 12 "only the dark and wild striking defiant" Mind Games "thundered through the quaking sound systems worldwide Born in Ponce Puerto Rico Liz was three when her father (a preacher), mother and five brothers and one sister moved to Chicago, grew up in a strict religious home, no radio or television, she grew up listening to "Spanish church records" and sang every chance she got-to her church ("I was so nervous, I sang with eyes closed") and for her family in High School she was hanging on the records absorb "everything" by Barbara Streisand Stevie Wonder Aretha Franklin and Luther Vandross to Grace Jones and Loleatta Holloway Butit was her discovery of the house on a Chicago beach as it swayed from boom-box then soon to be boyfriend and producer Jesse Jones, who set her on fire She explains: "I started to hang out at Jesse's house because that is where the music was one day one of his friend [Carl Bias] came over with this really hot track and I told Jesse I could sing to Jesse said "yeah right" So I asked him if he had words to it, he said he did not, but think of yourself singin... Read More About Liz Torres Biography...
