Ramón Silva Bahamondes

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]

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