Marco Castillo, (born September 19, 1963 in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil) is a Brazilian-Canadian musician and songwriter based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and the son of Trio Irakitan guitarist Antônio Santos Cunha.
in Music from Estácio S.A., Rio de Janeiro in 1994, he began touring South America with some of Brazil's top acts like Brazilian singer Rosa Marya Colin.
[3] In 2012, his second album, "Trip To Brazil" won "World Recording of the Year" in 2012 at the Western Canadian Music Awards in Regina.
[5] The song "Forró No Canadá" from "Zabelê" is a tribute to his new homeland in the Forró style of Brazil and a Folkloric Category finalist in the 2015 Viña del Mar International Song Festival at the Festival Viña del Mar 2015:[6][7] Marco Castillo plays a variety of Latin and World Music styles built on a foundation of jazz.
The songs are a mix of original compositions, traditional pieces, and standards, and performed solo, as a trio, and with the 8-piece Brazilian Beats.