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Place of Birth: Ubaté, Cundinamarca Department, Colombia
About Raúl Castaño Escobar
- Raúl Castaño Escobar (Ubaté, 23 May 1956) is a musician and composer of Colombian music.
- Considered one of the best performers in the field of traditional music in Colombia.
- He is particularly renowned as an interpreter of Luis Antonio Calvo, Gentil Montaña, Francisco Cristancho, and Jose Alejandro Morales, among other composers of Colombian Andean music.
- He is the 1998 Mono Núñez Festival winner as best performer of A My Tiple, by Guillermo Amado Gracia, and was named Honorary Member of the Colombian Academy of Music in 2015.
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