Poet, storyteller and musician Rafael Quintero dies

Published at: 22/12/2024 08:10 PM

The Ministry of Popular Power for Culture and its affiliated entities announced the sensitive death of Mr. Rafael Quintero, a member of the Madera Group and who, from the Marín neighborhood of the San Agustín parish of Caracas, became a Venezuelan artist who developed a multifaceted life as a poet, storyteller, composer, musician and singer.

“His career was synonymous with talent, perseverance, effort, commitment and dedication,” said the authorities of Venezuelan culture when they published the obituary on social networks.

Rafael Quintero was born in Caracas in 1956. He studied chemistry at the UCV and, from a very young age, he focused on politics and music. He began singing at an early age with the group Los Hijos Zoila, according to a brief biography published in the publisher El Perro y la Rana.

At 17, he was a member of the Organization of Revolutionaries (OR), which operated in hiding, and at 23, he joined the Madera group, after the tragedy of August 15, 1980. The cultor is part of the dynasty of the Quintero family in the Marín neighborhood, in San Agustín del Sur.

During an interview conducted by journalist Raúl Cazal, from the Alameda Theater in that Caracas parish, Quintero revealed that music, especially Caribbean music, remained in his soul since he was a child. “On the one hand, it's the music, my mother tells me that I woke up at the age of three singing and I say that I invented songs while I was sleeping. I dreamt I was a singer.” And at the age of 5, he won an award singing the song “Ahead”, with which he won a pair of skates at Plaza Venezuela.

He also wrote a bibliographic work, “Living in Marín”, which was the result of his desire to communicate his memories and his passion and revealed his desire for people to read it. “I think that everyone who writes is because they have in their heart, in their soul, the desire to communicate things that everyone would like to share and what was left of all that experience, of all that family space.”

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