Santiago Durango

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Santiago Durango (b. 1957, Colombia) was the guitarist for the influential noise rock band, Big Black. Durango currently works as an attorney in Ottawa, Illinois, USA.

Durango was the son of a Colombian doctor. His family moved to Chicago, Illinois in the US when he was 10.

A graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago, Durango was an original member of Naked Raygun, one of Chicago's first punk rock bands. A Raygun fan, Steve Albini was forming a band called Big Black and asked both Durango and Raygun lead singer Jeff Pezzati to join.

Durango continued in Big Black for its entire existence. After the group broke up, Durango went to law school. In his first case he helped recover Cynthia Plastercaster's bronze casts of the genitalia of various rock and roll artists, including that of Jimi Hendrix. He handled some litigation for Chicago's Touch and Go Records, and is currently an appellate defender.

Durango's first wife was chanteuse Cath Carroll. His second wife was children's book author Julia Durango