Ramon Carranza

Ramón Carranza (b. Toro, Honduras, 10/01/1934 - d. Caracas, Venezuela, 05/01/2003), also known as "Moncho" Carranza, was a sax player and music teacher. Carranza was born in Departamento Toro, Honduras, on October 1st, 1934. Carranza received his first musical trainning from his father Ramón Carranza Mondragón. After that, Carranza took clarinet lessons from master Hugo Steganni. Carranza moved to EEUU where received trainning on musical technnics with Carmin Carusso , Dr. Joe Allard, Eddi Daniels and Víctor Paz; additionally Sheldon Powel gave him personl trainning on sax and flute. Carranza Lazo moved to Venezuela and began to worked with Orquesta Sinfónica Venezuela, Orquesta Sinfónica Municipal and Orquesta Filarmónica de Caracas as clarinetist and sax player (1979 -1983) with the Filarmónica Carranza developed his carreer as teacher. Carranza recorded with [[Ademaro Romero]], Mirla Castellanos, Soda Stereo, Franco De Vita, Aditus, Kiara, and many more. On stages, Carranza worked on bands to [[Tito Rodríguez]], Paloma San Basilio, Barry White, Tom Jones, Donna Summers, Armando Manzanero, between others. For many years Carranza was part of the Venevision's Orchestra, a venezuelan TV Channel. Carranza recorded two personal Jazz Projects, Carranza Jazz and Carranza Jazz Vol. 2.