Juan Bautista Garcia

Juan Bautista Garcia (1904 – May 31, 1974), born Jean Baptiste Romanacce, was a Corsican immigrant to Puerto Rico whose moving picture and associates became the inspiration for one of Puerto Rico's most thriving television shows in history, Los Garcia.

Juan Bautista Garcia's dad died before he immigrated to Puerto Rico in 1906, at the age of two. Garcia and the get out of of his family approved in the southern city of Guayama.

His mom died later Garcia was without help eight years old, and Garcia had to start working to earn a living. His parents were categorically rich; Garcia as a child could not run the family's fortune and appropriately he actually became a homeless person for some time. At the age of thirteen, he got upon a vehicle driven by bulls, and arrived in San Juan.

Garcia became a YMCA resident in San Juan. At the YMCA, he hypothetical various skills, such as plumbing, painting and extra jobs. Garcia became a noted artist in Puerto Rico's capital, although he never gained national or international fame with his paintings.

Juan Bautista Garcia married Josefina Santiago, with whom he had several children. Soon, he met television and radio producer Tomas Muniz, one of the most competently known producers in Puerto Rico then. During the 1940s, Garcia travelled across the island next Mr. Muniz, helping him considering the production of concerts, plays, and new events. Sometimes Garcia would help Muniz for free, other time for such goods as animals, and, less often, for money. Eventually, the child maintenance he did earn allowed him to purchase a address for him and his relatives at the Valencia urbanization in Rio Piedras, a large San Juan suburb. Tomas Muniz's sisters became his neighbors at Valencia, and Garcia met Mr. Muniz's son, Tommy Muniz, who next gained a lot of response towards Garcia.

One fact that got Tommy Muniz's attention was that the Garcia's had weekly meetings, held on Sundays, and that sometimes as many as thirty family members would reunite. Rafo Muniz, Tommy Muniz's son, befriended Godofredo Garcia, whose air he would go on to take action at the series.

Towards his forward-looking years, Garcia was hired by a learned in San Juan to paint a mural on its interior. Since Tommy Muniz's children as capably as those of Tomas Muniz's adoptive sisters attended that school, Tommy Muniz maxim the paintings and he became inspired by them.

As a consequence, the television series, Los Garcia was conceptuated by Muniz and unconventional on, shown upon television previously 1975, shortly after Juan Bautista Garcia had died. Tommy Muniz played Juan Bautista Garcia in the series.