Ramon Chao

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ramón Luís Chao Rego (born 1935) is 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 Nadia Boulanger and Lazare Lèvy. In (1960) began his collaboration with the RTF's Iberian languages Service. He was Head of this service ten years after. At the same time he was collaborating with the Spanish weekly Triunfo, the montly Le Monde Diplomatique, and the daily newspapers Le Monde and La Voz de Galicia. He is the father of radio journalist Antoine Chao and of the musician and singer Manu Chao, both of them members of the Mano Negra band which Colombia's adventure was described in Ramón Chao's book Mano Negra en Colombia: Un tren de hielo y fuego. Ramón Chao was awarded a knighthood as chevalier de L'ordre des Arts et des Lettres in (1991) and named as an officier in 2004. In (2003) the Spanish Government awarded him the Orden del Mérito Civil. 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: pela seva coherència humana y solidaritat periodística.