Bobby Rivas

Bobby Rivas is a Salvadoran salsa/balladeer singer, composer, actor and musician. His band performs salsa and Latin music in general at his group's concerts. Born in El Salvador, the son of a Nicaraguan father and a Salvadorean mother, Rivas began singing at age six in school shows, church choirs, benefits, weddings.. At age eleven, Rivas participated in the "Buscando Estrellas" festival, from which he emerged a finalist. At thirteen, he joined the Chucho Tovar Flores orchestra, relocating to Los Angeles, California. In 1977 Rivas joined the "LA Compañia" orchestra, where he was introduced to the Tropical Music scene. In 1980, the promoter Roberto Rivera invited Rivas to form his own group. Rivas began to perform at the Hollywood Palladium, opening for headliners such as El Gran Combo, Ruben Blades, Willie Colon, Machito, and Celia Cruz, and others. Rivas then joined with Alex Acuña, Luis Conte, Yari More, Justo Almario and others, to form "The Los Angeles Salsa All Stars," a twenty piece band that performed in Tuesday night descargas at the Peruvian Room. In 1986, Rivas took first prize in the OTI Festival in Los Angeles. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_R...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)