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Andrés Torres (producer)

Colombian record producer and musician (born 1987)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Andrés Torres is a Colombian record producer, musician, and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his work in Latin music, including producing the 2017 single "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee, in addition to a remix with Justin Bieber. It was the first Latin song to top the Billboard Hot 100 for 16 weeks. It also reached number 1 on Hot Latin Songs. Torres has won 3 Latin Grammy Awards and been nominated for an additional 24, and is also a Grammy Award nominee.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Andrés Torres (producer)” is colombian record producer and musician (born 1987). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Andrés, Torres and producer, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Andrés, Torres and producer is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Andrés Torres (producer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.