Raul Saldana

......He has been traveling around the world studying and making research on traditional music. ..He is a multi-instrumentalist having Piano, Indian Sarangi and voice as main instruments. He also plays Nepali Sarangi, Guitar, Percussion and Native Flutes.

......He is especially interested in music as a way of contacting and healing....In his home country Mexico, he worked and learned about Native American ceremonies, music and traditions... He also studied Music Therapy playing in health and meditation centers.

......In India, he studied Sarangi with the renowned Muslim teacher Ustad Sabri Khan in Delhi and with Kanahaya Lal Mishra in Varanassi...In Nepal, he learned from Kim Bahadur Gayek a Ghandarva (cast of musicians that plays for the spirits to come).

......Through the exploration of music in different cultures he found that the most important ingredient comes from inside, that is why he also practice yoga and meditation.

......He started making fusion groups in Mexico since 1994 composing and later on mixing various musical styles and global influences, like Mexican Indigenous, Jazz, African, Native American, Classical, New Age, Tibetan, Medieval, and Indian Music.

......He has collaborated and made projects with local and foreign artists wherever he travels..He has been making music for dance and theatre performances in Macau and Mexico, for movies in Japan and played for Donna Karan (DKNY) fashion shows in New York and London...He has participated in various recordings and made concerts in United States, India, Nepal, Thailand, Japan , Spain, Belgium, Portugal, Hong Kong and Macau.

......He organizes educational projects for children, university students and general public..For the Macau Fringe Festival he made school touring with the project "Looking for our Roots" and in 2003 Terra Ignota was invited to make concerts and school interactive performances and workshops with the project "Cuica Ollin".

......With the experiences obtained in his journeys sharing with people from different cultural backgrounds, through music his aim is to express the unity of humans as one, all Native of the same planet.