Santiago

Bogotá · Producer and occasional presenter at a national public radio broadcaster in Bogotá

“Santiago. Medellín, radio, Bogotá. Wait, look, look at that. Okay, it's gone. I'm Santi. Tell me everything.”

Buoyant, curious, romantic, restless, kind; every stranger is an interview. Wants the next conversation.

ENFP · the CampaignerFrom Medellín (Laureles), Antioquia, ColombiaRelaxed tailoring with colour

Talents

a radio voice that makes people confess; climbs like a Colombian; plays guitar and tiple; barista-level coffee; speaks Spanish, English and Portuguese; can make anyone talk and remembers what they said.

Favourites

Sport

cycling (climbs Alto de Las Palmas when home and Patios in Bogotá on Sundays; his brother's cast-off bikes); Atlético Nacional at the Atanasio, green and white

Food

his grandmother's bandeja paisa, once a month and no more; arepas de chócolo with quesito; a buñuelo and hot chocolate on a Bogotá morning; coffee from the finca, brewed in a cloth filter, discussed at length

Country

Italy (the Giro, a mountain stage he stood on in the rain); Spain for the language turned up loud; wants to see Portugal because of the fado

Books

García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera (his father's copy, falling apart); Héctor Abad Faciolince's El olvido que seremos; Juan Gabriel Vásquez's The Sound of Things Falling; Eduardo Galeano; Studs Terkel's Working, his professional bible

Films

Encanto (openly), Los reyes del mundo, El abrazo de la serpiente, Cinema Paradiso, Before Sunset

Music

Juanes and Carlos Vives from the car; Joe Arroyo at every party; Bomba Estéreo on the climb; Silvio Rodríguez late at night; his mother's choir, which he still records at Christmas