San Antonio Current

Stepping out

Blind musical prodigy Juanito Castillo is 19, and he knows what he wants

In Music By Kiko Martinez
“This is my cave, my sanctuary,” Juanito Castillo says as he enters the guest-house-turned-music-studio built for him behind his parents’ home on San Antonio’s West Side. “I’m out here all the time, whenever I feel like it: midnight, 2 a.m.” A musical prodigy who dazzled locals as an adolescent member of Esteban Jordan’s band, Juanito is finally getting a taste of adulthood. At 19, he is no longer restricted by bedtime nor does h ... [MORE]

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