Ramón Luís Chao Rego 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

Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger was a French composer, conductor and teacher who taught many composers and performers of the 20th century.From a musical family, she achieved early honours as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, but believing that her talent as a composer was inferior to that of her younger...

 and Lazare Lèvy

Lazare Lévy

Lazare Lévy was an influential French pianist, organist, composer and pedgogue. As a virtuoso pianist he toured throughout Europe, in North Africa, Israel, the Soviet Union and Japan...

. 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

Triunfo

Triunfo is a municipality in the state Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.It is also the richest municipality in Brazil, with a per capita income of R$122,750 .-See also:*List of municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul...

, the montly Le Monde Diplomatique

Le Monde diplomatique

Le Monde diplomatique is a monthly newspaper offering analysis and opinion on politics, culture, and current affairs. It was first created mainly for a diplomatic audience as its name implies...

, and the daily newspapers Le Monde

Le Monde

Le Monde is a French daily evening newspaper owned by La Vie-Le Monde Group and edited in Paris. It is one of two French newspapers of record, and has generally been well respected since its first edition under founder Hubert Beuve-Méry on 19 December 1944...

 and La Voz de Galicia

La Voz de Galicia

La Voz de Galicia is a Spanish daily newspaper owned by the Corporación Voz de Galicia. La Voz is the most sold newspaper in Galicia and the sixth of Spain...

. 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”.

Films

Llorens Artigas with Georges Ferraro TVF (1970)
Arriba España with José María Berzosa and André Camp. SFP París (1976)
Oú es-Tu ? with J.M. Berzosa FR3 (1989)
50 años después de la guerra, with José Maria Berzosa (1980- SFR)
Tres días con Onetti, with José María Berzosa - SFP-Paris (1990), Océaniques

Radio

De la Bastilla a Moncada Premio Radio La Habana. ORTF (1978
Conversaciones con Jorge Luis Borges in collaboration with Ignacio Ramonet

Ignacio Ramonet

Ignacio Ramonet is a Spanish journalist and writer.He was the editor-in-chief of Le Monde diplomatique from 1991 until March 2008....

 ORTF (1980)
Julio Cortázar Esbozo with (Adelaida Blázquez) Premio International "España" (1984)
De Berceo al altiplano, itinerario del español Premio International "España" (1985), with Erlens Calabuig.