Louis R. Torres was born in Puerto Rico but raised in Brooklyn, New York. His eight-year music career terminating as Bass player with Bill Haley and the Comets ended with his conversion to Christ. After two years in the military during the Vietnam War, he entered the ministry and has served as an evangelist, a soul-winning trainer, a church administrator, and an author. He has taught on 3ABN and Hope Channel and abroad. His books include Notes on Music, Left Behind or Sincerely Taken, Gaining Decisions for Christ, Great Stories for Gaining Decisions, Bothersome and Disturbing Bible Passages, Demons or Angels, Jesus in the Heart of the Earth, The Angel Who Is Jesus, and Elsa, which tells the story of his mother's raising six boys in ghettos of New York City.