Ryan Castro He is undoubtedly one of the most recognized voices in the urban music genre. Topics like Jordan, Womanizer, Monastery and Burn They have marked his career and have inspired many other artists, who have been motivated to follow in their footsteps.
Castro has been in the music industry since 2016, and during all these years he has encountered other challenges to overcome. In fact, one of the most recent has nothing to do with music.
The artist has developed his role as a businessman by acquiring the Los Paisas basketball team. The Colombian welcomes 2025 as owner of this sports team in Medellín. “This makes Castro the first Colombian artist to own a stake in a basketball team, and also makes him one of the few Colombian artists with financial investments in the sport,” explains Billboard. “I am very happy to announce to you today on my birthday this alliance that is so important to me, we are investors in the best basketball team”declares our protagonist on his networks.
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For his part, Ryan has also shared his excitement on Billboard: “It is another facet for us as businessmen. Supporting sports, because the children of the neighborhoods have the same dreams as you”. “I love basketball. Whenever I go to the United States, I like to go to NBA games. So everything came together and the opportunity arose to support a team from my city to continue growing the basketball movement, generate more activity and support young people who are interested in sports,” he adds.
The truth is that Ryan is not the only urban music artist to acquire a basketball team. Puerto Rican Ozuna also considers himself passionate about this sport and, therefore, in 2022, he became the owner of Los Osos de Manatí.
In short, for Ryan Castro there are no impossible challenges.
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