Sonia Osorio de Saint-Malo (25 March 1928 – 28 March 2011) was a Colombian

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and

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. During her long career she became an important

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and promoter of the arts and culture having worked closely with and for the

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and having founded in 1960 the Colombia Ballet, a national

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that incorporates the native dances, styles and rhythms of Colombia.

Personal life

Osorio was born on 25 March 1928 to Luis Enrique Osorio Morales and Lucía de Saint-Malo Prieto in Bogotá. Her father Luis Enrique, was a playwright and poet, one of the precursors of theatre in Colombia. She was married and divorced three times; with her first husband Julius Siefken du Perly she had two children, Kenneth and Bonnie Blue. with her second husband,

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she had two children: Rodrigo and Silvana,{and With her third husband, Francesco Paleotti Lanzoni, she only had one child, Giovanni who then married Dario Pavajeau's smallest child, Vicky Pavajeau, and had a daughter, Francesca Paleotti-Lanzoni.

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