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Nectar presents OMAR TORREZ

Omar Torrez -- guitar virtuoso, soulful vocalist and composer, creates a highly original style of music he calls Latin Soul & Groove. The artist's European-Mexican roots and rebellious artistic spirit inspires him to create an exciting combination of music reminiscent of modern masters like Stevie Wonder and Prince with echoes of Paco De Lucia's guitar.

"Omar Torrez is crossing many borders and establishing many unlikely links - between classical and pop, virtuoso and hot swinging, Latin and blues, European and American, sexy and pure... and doing all this with style," said world-renowned music critic and member of World Music Consortium, Artemy Troitsky. The Seattle Times posed the question, "Dare we dub him the Latin Hendrix?" The musical critic, Tom Scanlon, added: "The fastest fingers in the West, a massive talent poised to break out and kiss the sky." He radiates fiery passion, drawing in the musicians and the audience and connecting with them on the deepest spiritual and sensual levels.

The artist burst onto the Seattle music scene in 1995 as a finalist in the National Jimi Hendrix Gibson Guitar Competition. A then unknown Omar took the stage with a borrowed guitar and brought a packed Seattle Opera house crowd to its feet with his guitar pyrotechnics. He then studied under well-known Flamenco guitar master, Juan Serrano, whose art injected masterful techniques and authentic rhythms into his music. Since then, the artist has been winning fans all over America and most recently, in Europe.