Gino Castillo

Jazz Artist of the Year City Paper Music Awards (2013/ 2014 / 2024)
Jazz Artist of the Year Independent Tone Awards (2015 / 2016 / 2018)

Gino Castillo Ecuadorian Cuban singer, percussionist, songwriter and producer, based in Charleston South Carolina USA. His successful career has developed on the last 24 years between Latin jazz, salsa and world music with the Afro-Cuban influence.

An artist with several musical solo projects, singing boleros and salsa music; he is also the band leader, producer and singer with his bands “The Cuban Cowboys and “Buena Vista Legacy Band”

As a side man he has being part of several tours and recordings with world recognized artists like: Earl Klugh, Al Turner, Jessy J, Michael Mossman, Quentin Baxter, Etienne Charles, Nestor Torres, Horacio el Negro Hernandez, Paulo Moura, Pascoal Meirelles, Cruks En Karnak, Juan Fernando Velasco, Andrés Sacoto, and more.

His talent brought him to be a recurrent special guest with the Charleston Jazz Orchestra, the Charleston Symphony and the North Charleston POPS orchestra

At the moment he is scheduling the world release of all his albums on the 2025, among them are several latin jazz albums with the Cuban Cowboys, plus his solo salsa album “Corazón Kamikaze” where hi invite to the studio some of the most important Cuban musicians in the Cuban salsa world, bringing his best vocal qualities to this project.

At the same time hi is working on his next production named “Volviendo a Nacer”