Horacio Olivo

Horacio Olivo
Born1933 (1933)
Dorado, Puerto Rico
DiedJuly 24, 2016(2016-07-24) (aged 82–83)
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Occupations
  • Actor
  • singer

Horacio Olivo (1933 – July 24, 2016) was a Puerto Rican actor, comedian, and television/radio personality, as well as a classically trained singer.

Entertainment career

Born in Dorado, Puerto Rico, he got his start in show business in 1949 at long defunct WNEL as a radio soap opera actor. He graduated from the Instituto Comercial de Puerto Rico, and studied for 3 years at the Puerto Rico Music Conservatory. He participated in various Festival Casals concerts as a tenor in the chorus section.

Olivo has also acted in various plays during the Puerto Rican and International Theatre Festivals, was the station announcer for all the WIPR stations (WIPR, WIPR-FM, and WIPR-TV), and acted in comedy TV shows like Como está la situación, and Esto no tiene nombre, produced by Tommy Muñiz. He was involved in a comedy sketch as part of a telemarathon that marked the television debut of Carmen Belén Richardson.[1] During the Korean War, Olivo was among those drafted in 1954.[2] This interrupted his role in the action series Espionaje.[2] During the early 1980s, Olivo appeared in Producciones Tommy Muñiz's Cosas del alcalde, which aired in the producer's station WRIK-TV.[3] With a loose concept Los siete del Siete would take over the prime time slot Thursdays, and be host by a number of local talents including Agrelot, Morales, Olivo, Avellanet, Jovet and Logroño.[4]

Horacio Olivo is perhaps better known as the booming voice behind Los Rayos Gamma.[5] One of the Rayos Gamma's better known parodies was Olivo's hugely popular antagonistic ode to the U.S. Navy, based on Agustín Lara's song "Granada". He was reportedly fired from his WIPR post because of his political beliefs (his was the official voice of the Puerto Rico Independence Party's radio spots), and for a while, he owned a fried chicken establishment in his hometown of Dorado.

After Channel 11 went bankrupt, Los Rayos Gamma moved to Muñiz's channel, WRIK-TV.[6] The group debuted on November 1, 1981.[6] He was along several figures, including Los Gamma, that participated in the inauguration of Súper Siete following the sale of the channel.[7] Olivo played the role of an unseen director in the play Los muchachos de la Alegría, which reunited Muñiz and Paquito Cordero after two decades of estrangement.[8] On February 3, 1997, he participated in Los 75 años de don Tommy, a special dedicated to Muñiz's career.[9]

Later years

Olivo had been partially retired from public life because of health-related issues: he had open heart surgery in October 2011. He nominally remained a part of Los Rayos Gamma, who filmed a comedy interview with him for their latest show in November 2011. However, Olivo suffered a cardiac incident on 22 November 2011.[10] On July 24, 2016 Olivo died at San Juan's Pavía Hospital where he was interned since July 20 with various health complications. He was 83.[11][12]

Personal life

The Olivo family had eight siblings, of which Horacio is the oldest. The fifth sibling, Eddie Olivo, founded and headed Puerto Rico's plena collective, Los Pleneros del Quinto Olivo.

See also

References

Citations

  1. ^ García 2009, pp. 100
  2. ^ a b García 2009, pp. 48
  3. ^ García 2009, pp. 359
  4. ^ García 2009, pp. 362
  5. ^ Holden, Stephen (August 7, 1990). "Review/Festival Latino; A Lampoon, With Music, Of Culture And Politics". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 July 2010.
  6. ^ a b García 2009, pp. 367
  7. ^ García 2009, pp. 387
  8. ^ García 2009, pp. 391
  9. ^ García 2009, pp. 462
  10. ^ "En estado grave Horacio Olivo". www.elnuevodia.com. 22 November 2011. Retrieved 2016-07-25.
  11. ^ "Muere el actor y cantante Horacio Olivo". Elnuevodia.com (in Spanish). Derechos Reservados. 24 July 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  12. ^ "Horacio Olivo, Master of Political Satire and Comedy, Dies at 83". Archived from the original on 2016-09-23. Retrieved 2016-09-13.

Bibliography

  • García, María "Beba" (2009). ¡Juan, Juan, Juan! Crónicas de la televisión en los tiempos de don Tommy. Terranova Editores. ISBN 9781935163206.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)


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