Raúl Shaw Moreno

I have always enjoyed Latin American music. My first memories of live Latin music go back to the early 60´s when the then famous Trio Los Paraguayos visited my home town. It was a great concert, but the fact that the concert hall was almost empty made me - and probably also the great Luis Alberto del Parana and his fellow musicians -  very sad.

Much later I became aquainted with the music of another great Latin American singer, Raúl Shaw Moreno. Bolivian born Moreno joined the famous Mexican Trio Los Panchos in 1950 and became a wellknown name also in the US. Later he continued his solo career and remained a big star in Latin America. In 1983 he settled in Buenos Aires, where he died after a long illness in 2003. But his music lives on.

Here you can listen to three of his greatest hits:

In this radio recording from the Gran Palacio de Bellas Artes de Mexico you can hear Raúl Shaw Moreno both speak and sing:

You can still find Moreno´s CD:s at e.g. Amazon.com