[biography]De la Ghetto

[Mr.Daniel]

Rafael Castillo Torres4 (New York, September 17, 1984), known artistically as De la Ghetto, is an American singer and songwriter.5 He began his musical career as a member of the duo Arcángel & De la Ghetto in 2005 before embarking on a solo career.6

Biography
Rafael Castillo, Jr. was born in Bronx, New York, son of Dominican Rafael Castillo and Puerto Rican Migdalia Torres. He moved to Puerto Rico at the age of eight.7 In some interviews, he revealed that his father died months after he was born and that his mother was in prison for six years in Argentina while he stayed living with his grandmother and sister. in San Juan.8

His father belonged to the Medellín Cartel. Rafael Jr. lived with his parents in New York, one day they went on vacation to Santo Domingo and his father delegated his work to some friends of his. While on vacation, Rafael Castillo's friends killed another member of the Medellin Cartel and stole his job.

When the family returned from vacation they found out what had happened and Pablo Escobar sent someone to kill Rafael. However, the singer's mother tried to prevent him from being killed, but she did not succeed. Finally, Rafael Castillo died in 1985 from four gunshot wounds to the head. Both the absence of his father and the jobs his mother had after his father's death have caused many problems that have affected him for many years.

Furthermore, he has revealed that when his father died, his mother married his little sister's father, but after a few years they separated and he moved to La Perla, Puerto Rico. After divorcing her sister's father, Migdalia began dating a Colombian who was going to pay her to transport drugs, so she had to travel through several South American countries, from Colombia to Argentina. Her mother intended to return to Puerto Rico to move with her two children to Australia, however, Migdalia was arrested in 1992 in Argentina.9

A few years later, he found out why her mother was in jail and discovered the whole truth about her past thanks to her boyfriend. A few years later her mother returned to her life to tell her the whole truth about his father, however, she did not tell him about her family or her origins. From that moment on, he wanted to follow in his father's footsteps, which caused him a lot of problems. His friendship with a boy who was involved in drug trafficking also had a lot of influence, but he was murdered and he realized that the same thing could have happened to him. .10

In 2004, he met the Dominican Arcángel with whom he created a musical duo called "The Wonder", at that moment he decided to put aside the idea of following in his father's footsteps to focus on music, which is what he is truly passionate about. This group had a contract with the Baby records company, but Arcángel decided to continue with his musical career separately. However, he continued in that company and from that moment on he is better known by his stage name De la Ghetto; He chose this name because he was a big fan of the series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. In one episode, the butler imitates a rapper named Raphael De la Ghetto, so he saw it clearly and since their names coincided, he adopted this name for himself. his musical career.11

Since the breakup of "The Wonder", he has continued with his solo career, and has also achieved many successes both in his career and in his personal life. In 2007, he went to Santo Domingo to promote his new single Sensación delblock with Randy. At the event, he took advantage of the fact that he had many followers to say in front of all the television programs that he was looking for his father and that he is Dominican. After mentioning that in public, he received a visit from at least thirty families who claimed to be his parents; However, he did not believe them, since he had a photograph of his biological father and none of their members looked alike. The following year he received a call from a friend of his in which he stated that he had an acquaintance who claimed to be his cousin and that they were waiting for him at the reception of the hotel where he was staying. Finally, he managed to reunite with his family and one of his uncles told him the truth about his father and what had happened to him.