Caitro Soto

{{Short description|Afro-Peruvian musician and composer}}

Pedro Carlos Soto de la Colina (23 October 1934, San Luis, Cañete, Peru – 19 July 2004, Lima, Peru), popularly known as Caitro Soto, was an Afro-Peruvian musician and composer.{{cite book

| last = Feldman

| first = Heidi

| title = Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific

| publisher = Wesleyan

| date = 2007-11-01

| pages = 139

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| isbn = 978-0819568151

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He was known for his version of the Peruvian folk song, "Toro Mata" and as part of the Afro-Peruvian artist's collective Peru Negro. Peru Negro, located in Lima, is one of the most important organizations dedicated to preserving Afro-Peruvian music, dance and culture. Soto appeared in The Motorcycle Diaries as "Papá Carlito", a resident of the leper colony at San Pablo, Peru. There is a book by Caitro Soto written in Spanish with an accompanying compact disc entitled De Cajón: Caitro Soto – el duende en la música Afroperuana, published by el Comercio in Lima, Peru, in 1995.{{cite web | title = De cajón : el duende en la música afroperuana | work = Stanford University Libraries catalog | publisher = Stanford University | url = http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4486325}}