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Roberto Torres

In the mid 1970s, the world around Roberto Torres was exploding musically. But as a teenager, it was the Chicano music scene that struck him like a bolt of lightning. From the West Coast, bands like Santana, El Chicano, Malo, etc. who combined fiery red hot guitars, Afro-Latin percussion and rhythms and Chicano soul. While in high school, Roberto attended his first Santana concert at the Sam Houston Colosseum in Houston and his first El Chicano concert at Galveston’s Quintero Recreation Center. Both times he was blown away. During that same period, a very reluctant Roberto was persuaded by his cousin Andrew Espinosa (R.I.P.) to join him at the famed Moody Civic Center for a gran baile featuring Sunny & The Sunliners. And over the next couple of years, he was fortunate to attend shows by legendary bands like The Latin Breed, Tortilla Factory, The Royal Jesters, and Grammy Award winners Little Joe y La Familia and Ruben Ramos & The Mexican Revolution. Pulsating cumbias, foot-stomping polkas, and beautiful slow jam boleros, all punctuated by brassy horn arrangements. Roberto has been a Chicano-Tejano music fan ever since. When he’s not busy practicing law, Roberto and his wife Nora are regulars at Santana concerts, Houston’s Festival Chicano, the Tejano National Music Convention in Las Vegas, the Tejano Music Fan Fair in San Antonio. For the past couple of years, he’s volunteered with Galveston L.U.L.A.C. Council 151 as an entertainment coordinator for their annual Cinco de Mayo and Dia de Los Muertos festivals.  

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Benny Padilla

Benny here!  I've lived in Alvin, TX just about all my life except when I joined The Army and served in Vietnam. I am retired so I have a lot of time on my hands. I am married to Rosalinda and have two children, Jason and Jessica and a few grandkids. I love music and have been on internet radio DJ on and off for the last 20 years and now I am part ​of Puropartyradio.com.​  I really think this is a good thing because I can interact with people in Houston Galveston and surrounding areas and promote the other music to all our listeners. I enjoy being around and meeting people as well as being active in our community by donating my time to charities; especially promoting our young people to stay in school and getting a good education. I know that all the crew at ​the radio station will do our best to promote new bands and bands that have been around for a while by playing their music and being active in our community. I hope you will log on and make​puropartyradio.com​ your favorite station. We are on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with some of the best DJs in the area playing the music you want to hear.