Rafael Sotomayor is one of very few hang drum players in the world.
He was born in Santiago de Chile. Carried by his thirst for knowledge, he traveled 8 years around the world. In 2006 Rafael, painter and self-taught musician, founded the art collective TheArtOfFusion with the aim to unite different cultures and art forms by combining different music elements from many parts of our globe. Also as a composer, Rafael collaborates with his own creativity in a variety of musical styles, always looking for an unusual expression. In 2003 he encountered the Hang, an instrument with a new sound - invented in Switzerland in the year 2000 - inspired by the Caribbean Steel Drum and the Gatham, which is a percussion instrument from India. The hang drum is a rare hand made instrument, its new sound is the perfect medium for Rafael in order to combine different cultures and music styles in a novel way.