Raúl de Ramón (May 12, 1929, Santiago de Chile — April 1984) was a Chilean composer, musician and folklorist and author of numerous songs of great diffusion in Chile like The Curanto, Nostalgia Colchaguina, Camino de Soledad, Rosa Colorada, Canción de la Caballería, El Amor del Arriero and a hundred more. He conformed next to his wife Maria Eugenia and his two children Carlos and Raúl the group Los de Ramón with whom he traveled and presented Chilean music by all U.S.A. (more than 92 concerts), Mexico and the rest of the countries of Latin America.
He recorded next to his family more than thirteen longplays, two of them in Mexico, with own creations and with compilations of folkloric music of all Latin America. Also, he published some books of Chilean literature, including, El Caballero y sus Dragones a country Chilean novel; Raíces en la Bruma, a poetry book, and Arreo en el Viento, a compilation of important parts of his musical work.
De Ramón studied at The Grange School in Santiago and soon graduated as an architect from the Catholic University of Chile. He spent an important part of its youth in the country in the Colchagua Province where he became absorbed by the fundamentals of the Chilean culture of the Central Zone, crossing it by horse and taking feeling of its roots, falling in love deeply with the basis of Chilean heritage which would be reflected widely in his later work.
The first group he set was conformed at the University and it was called the Huincas next to his friend of youth Rogelio Muñoz, and after next to his woman he set Los de Ramón inside of which he will after integrate his two children. Not only he investigated and carried out a deep search in Chilean folklore but also he did it in the Latin American folklore where he carried out next to his woman Maria Eugenia an extense compilation of songs, rhythms and clothes of the different countries.
Very well known were the meetings that took place in their house with folklorists of all the countries of Latin America where the music of all of them was sung, it was called by many like the Small O.A.S. In their representations they sung songs of all the Latin American countries interpreted each one with the typical instruments of each country arriving to used more than sixty different instruments interpreted all by they themselves, also songs of the north, center and the south of Chile. Some of the discs published by them that could be mentioned are : Arreo en el Viento, Nostalgia Colchaguina, An image of Chile, Human Landscape of Chile, Latin American Folkloric Panorama (published in Mexico, 2 longplays), Los de Ramón in Family and Chilean Mass, among others.
Raúl de Ramón also had influence and helped in the creation of new musical folkloric Chileans groups like Los Cantores de Santa Cruz, Los de Santiago and others. In his work could be mentioned also the construction of Chilean houses, the creation of a Chilean Mass even published in France, the creation of a still unpublished musical comedy and the creation of a restaurant, The Alero de los de Ramón, where Chilean music was played and typical Chilean food was eaten. His musical work includes the music of all the regions of Chile, north center and south. He was named "Illustrious Son of Santa Cruz" in regards of his collaboration to this city and has together with his family a place at the Museum of Colchagua at this city. He died in April in 1984 at 55 years of age.