Willito Otero
Willito Otero was born Wilfredo Otero Matos on April 30, 1984, in Naranjito,
Puerto Rico. He entered music as a child troubadour, winning a Puerto Rican
trovadores competition at age eight, and by 17 he was already singing with the
orchestras La Clave and Son de Madre. That early period led to his first
recorded album appearance, Timbal pa’l bailador, with timbalero Edwin Clemente
in 2005. He then spent more than a decade with Conjunto Comborican at the
Nuyorican Café in Old San Juan, a long run that sharpened his improvising and
stage craft and led to work with William Cepeda an...
