Ramón Silva Bahamondes
Ramón Óscar Silva Bahamondes, better known as Moncho Silva[1] (Valparaíso, 16 June 1944 – Viña del Mar, 3 September 2020),[1] was a Chilean singer and radio host.[2]
Biography
[edit]The son of Juan Ramón Felipe Silva Billa and Adelina Emma Bahamondes Carrasco, he studied at the Colegio San Pedro Nolasco.[3]
He began singing at school participating in folk groups, and made his first recording with the group Los del Sendero together with the singer José Alfredo Fuentes.[3] Between 1966 and 1968, he joined the vocal quartet Clan 91.[1][2]
During his career as radio host, he was one of the founders of the Radio Festival of Viña del Mar in 1976.[1][2] He worked in Radio Portales de Valparaíso hosting the program Portaleando la mañana.[1][2]
In Santiago he worked for Radio Gigante and Radio Portales.[1] On television, in 1986 he was part of the international jury of the XXVII International Festival of the Song in Viña del Sea. That same year he was a panelist for the program Goal Show on UCV Television. He was a music producer at Channel 13.[1]
In his later years, he returned to the Valparaíso Region to live in Concón.[1] He worked at Radio Congreso. His last job was at the Concón community radio station until mid-August 2020, when he was hospitalized at the Almirante Nef Naval Hospital for COVID-19, during the pandemic in Chile; he died on September 3 of the same year aged 76.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i Juan Carlos Griffiths (3 September 2020). "Pesar en el circuito radial de la región: Falleció el locutor Ramón "Moncho" Silva por COVID-19". Retrieved 4 September 2020.
- ^ a b c d e Diario La Nación (3 September 2020). "El Destacado Locutor Radial Ramón "Moncho" Silva Murió de COVID-19". Retrieved 4 September 2020.
- ^ a b CLAN 91 (3 September 2020). "Ramón Silva Bahamondes". Facebook. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
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