Music career
He founded his Timple Academy in 1954, trained several generations of performers and later devoted himself to recovering, disseminating and teaching the instrument.
Totoyo Millares
A Gran Canaria timple player, teacher, composer, researcher and disseminator recognised with the 2015 Canary Islands Prize for Popular Culture.
- Roles
- Timple player · Music teacher · Disseminator
- Genres
- Canarian timple · Canarian popular music
- Instruments
- Timple
- Activity
- 1954-2022
Biography
Luis “Totoyo” Millares Sall was a master of the Canarian timple, recognised with the 2015 Canary Islands Prize for Popular Culture for his teaching, composition, research and outreach work.
Open biographyContribution
The Canary Islands Prize recognised his teaching, compositional, research and dissemination work around the timple.
Style
His profile combines popular accompaniment, timple repertoire, teaching and a defence of the instrument as a Canarian sonic emblem.
Repertoire
His work revolves around the timple, the Timple Academy and the Popular Timple Orchestra.
Legacy
His legacy is built through timple teaching, heritage recovery and the public projection of the instrument in media and Canarian communities outside the archipelago.
Canary Islands connection
His activity centres on Gran Canaria and on contemporary transmission of the Canarian timple.
Works and recordings
Academia de Timple
Institución formativa que sirvió de base a varias generaciones de intérpretes.
Primera Orquesta Popular de Timples del Archipiélago Canario
Proyecto destacado en la trayectoria del timplista.
Timeline
Academia de Timple
Funda su Academia de Timple.
Orquesta Popular de Timples
Crea la Primera Orquesta Popular de Timples del Archipiélago Canario.
Premio Canarias
Recibe el Premio Canarias en la modalidad de Cultura Popular.