Ramón Luís Chao Rego (21 July 1935 – 20 May 2018) was a Spanish journalist and writer. He won the Premio de Virtuosismo for Piano in 1955. The same year he moved to Paris, France to study music with

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. In 1960 he began his collaboration with the

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's Iberian languages Service. He was head of this service ten years later. At the same time he was collaborating with the Spanish weekly '' Triunfo'', the monthly ''

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'', and the daily newspapers ''

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''. Ramón Chao was named ''chevalier de

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'' in 1991 and named as an ''officier'' in 2004. In 2003 the Spanish government awarded him the

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. In 1997 he won the prize Premio Galicia de la Comunicación. In 2001, the Liberpress prize in Gerona for his human coherence and his solidarity in the field of journalism: “per la seva coherència humana i solidaritat periodística”. He was the father of radio journalist Antoine Chao and of the musician and singer

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, both of them members of the Mano Negra band whose Colombian adventure was described in Ramón Chao's book ''Mano Negra en Colombia: Un tren de hielo y fuego''.

Bibliography

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'' (1973) *'' Después de Franco, España'' (1975) *'' Guía secreta de París'' (1979) *''

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'' (1982) *'' Conversaciones con Alejo Carpentier'' (1984) *''

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and Jacek Woźniak) *'' La pasión de la Bella Otero'' (2001) *'' Desde mi otero'' (2003) *'' Porque Cuba eres tú'' (2005) *'' Las Travesías de Luis Gontán'' (2006) *'' Las andaduras del Che'' with Jaceck Wozniak) (2007) *''

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'' with (Adelaida Blázquez) Premio International "España" (1984) *'' De Berceo al altiplano, itinerario del español'' Premio International "España" (1985), with Erlens Calabuig.

References

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