Luis Diaz Portorreal, was born in Bonao, the 21 of June of 1962, and it was there where he made his first musical studies with the profesors Juan Zorrilla and Tatán Jiménez and where also at the age of 16 years, founded his first musical group known as the Chonnys.
Years later, in 1972, he joined the Convite group, with which he began, next to sociologist Dagoberto Tejado, to investigate and to collect in the country the different rates and melodys attached to the Dominican cultural sediment. In 1978, with the grouping, Madora, worked the fusion of the Jazz with the Antillean Folklore, to culminate all one decade of reelaboration of the originating songs by the same roots of the dominicanidad.
In 1980 he went to star for the first time in the city of New York, in the United States, where he remained for two years, time during which the rhythms of jazz managed to conquer him. To its return to the mother country he integrated the group Urban Transport, where they would go to put all their musical impressions, that they conjugated from the bachata to heavy metal.
In 1999 he formed a new group, this time would be Luis Diaz lider of the Victory, grouping with which he realized concerts of great quality.
His musical task has been registered in several records between which there are the titels: Luis Terror Diaz (1984), Convite convida (1984), El accidente (1998), Luis Diaz y Transporte Urbano (1999), Anthología (1999). By his work, Mr. Diaz has deserved the Silver Award of the International Festival of Filadelfia in 1984. In 1988 the Casandra was granted to him for mayor text of one of his musical produccions, and in 1989, he received the award of Best Composer of Year in that same event.
More than three hundred of his produccions have been recorded by different artists and orquestras, among them; Sergio Vargas, Wilfrido Vargas, Sonia Silvestre, Rafael Solano, Good Alex, Fernando Villalona and Marc Anthony.


This text is taken from "Los cien músicos del siglo" and translated, published in 2000 by "Cañabrava", in Santo Domingo and written by "el Lic. Antonio Gómez Sotolongo"