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Rafael Nazario was born on 30 July, 1952 in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a Puerto Rican musician. At 68 years old, Rafael Nazario height not available right now. We will update Rafael Nazario's height soon as possible.
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5' 8"
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6' 5"
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6' 2"
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5' 8"
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5' 9"
Now We discover Rafael Nazario's Biography, Age, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of net worth at the age of 70 years old?
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Occupation |
Pianist, composer, actor, author, chef |
Rafael Nazario Age |
70 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Leo |
Born |
30 July 1952 |
Birthday |
30 July |
Birthplace |
Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico |
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He is a member of famous Pianist with the age 70 years old group.
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Dating & Relationship status
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Rafael Nazario Net Worth
He net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-22. So, how much is Rafael Nazario worth at the age of 70 years old? Rafael Nazario’s income source is mostly from being a successful Pianist. He is from . We have estimated
Rafael Nazario's net worth
, money, salary, income, and assets.
Net Worth in 2022 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Nazario moved to Los Angeles with his then wife. He worked as waiter at Jean Leon’s La Scala-Malibu restaurant, but left after a few months. After a short spell as a singer–pianist in a cabaret night club, he worked as chef at Hugo's, in West Hollywood. Here, Nazario created the menu and format for what became an icon in the Los Angeles dining scene. Hugo’s was one of the first of the gourmet take-out stores with a bistro-Euro-café restaurant setting.
The clientele at 72 Market Street included a mix of celebrities and West Coast artists, literati and writers, alongside beachcombers and local denizens. During his Los Angeles years, Nazario lived on the fringes of fame. He designed the menu for Joni Mitchell’s wedding reception (as consultant for Nucleus Nuance, whose owner, Bruce Veneiro was a mutual friend) and once spent an evening at the home of composer Ken Lauber teaching Bob Dylan how to play a Gershwin song.
Nazario took a job as a chef in Portland, where once again, he became well known. This resulted in him relocating to Mexico for a restaurant venture: Cafe Caracoles. After a few months in Puerto Vallarta, he moved on to Daiquiri Dick’s, a fine-dining restaurant on Los Muertos beach in Puerto Vallarta. Shortly after arriving in Mexico, Nazario began to write songs in Spanish. Just over a year later, he released his debut album Patria Añorada.
After university and a number of odd jobs, he joined a Top-40 covers band and toured the US, playing mostly hotels. He eventually returned to Portland and enrolled in graduate school, supporting himself as waiter and sommelier. A brief stint as sommelier at the Benson Hotel led to Nazario being asked to join a new restaurant in ‘Old Town’, called "Fingers", after its founding chef, Fred Finger. Within a few months, the founding chef departed and Nazario took on the role of chef at the restaurant. The eatery coincidentally received its first positive newspaper review (Willamette Week; Karen Brooks, Gideon Bosker ) a few weeks later. "Fingers" restaurant was later renamed 'The Norton House', after the historic building (owned by Bill Naito) that housed it.
Nazario was born in the Santurce district of San Juan, Puerto Rico, the son of Elvira Piñeiro Prieto and Rafael Nazario Cardona, a newspaper pressman. Rafael Sr was the eldest of 18, and according to the family's oral history, their father, Francisco Nazario was one of the founders—along with Romualdo Real—of the Puerto Rico Ilustrado magazine, and later the newspaper El Mundo (Puerto Rico). His mother was of Spanish (Canarian), Portuguese and Dutch ancestry. His maternal grandfather, Amador Piñeiro, was one of the last train station superintendents on the island. Rafael Sr. moved the family to Costa Rica when Nazario was a few months old and years later settled in Jersey City, New Jersey, where Nazario attended St Aedens School. They returned to Puerto Rico when Nazario was nine years of age. He eventually studied at the De La Salle (Christian Brothers) School in the suburban city of Bayamón, where they lived. It was at La Salle that Nazario first became involved in theatre, under the direction of Luis J. Cruz.
As a well-known chef, Nazario found it difficult to be taken seriously as a musician. After several months playing for free at the At My Place nightclub in Santa Monica, he played piano at a new restaurant in Venice 72 Market Street Oyster Bar and Grill — owned by Tony Bill (The Sting, Taxi Driver) along with several partners, including Dudley Moore. Nazario was the house pianist for six years, and the resident wine and spirits buyer for most of that period. According to LA Style magazine, he oversaw one of the city’s best wine lists at the time.
Later, Nazario was to helm a trio for the live—if short-lived—KCRW broadcasts, as well as other NPR related events, and was involved in the 72 Market St. Lecture Series. Los Angeles Magazine included him among the city’s top sommeliers in its "Best of L.A." article, while Caroline Bates noted his wine list and "sophisticated jazz piano" in a Gourmet Magazine review (Dec. 1987).
In 2013, Nazario formed a Latin jazz trio. Soon thereafter he was invited to play at the Thredbo Jazz Festival.
2011 Wild Boys (Australian TV Series); Piano player - Episode #1.13
In mid-2009, Nazario left the culinary realm to once again devote himself to music. When he began to teach piano, his first student was Joanna Weinberg, singer, actress and musical theatre composer. Nazario later produced and arranged Ms Weinberg’s ‘The Piano Diaries’. He also collaborated with Ms Weinberg on a song, ‘Don’t Give Up’, which featured in the movie, ‘Goddess’ (2013), which she wrote. During that time Nazario also directed theatre in Sydney (e.g., "Sure Thing"). At the same time, he also worked occasionally as an actor, mainly doing TVCs and the occasional program.
In 2005, Nazario moved to Australia to where he was the co-founder of Guzman y Gomez. He later went on to help launch Mad Mex Fresh Mexican Grill, another quick service restaurant along with consulting for several restaurants and Mexican QSRs in Australia and New Zealand.
While living in Puerto Vallarta, Nazario wrote and designed a collection of his recipes, Sand in Your Shoes (2001), which gained the attention of the James Beard Foundation. In August 2004, he and his crew went to New York City to prepare a dinner of Mexican haute cuisine at the James Beard House.
Nazario's recordings range from Latin music to instrumental compositions, pop songs in English, classical-oriented piano and orchestral works. His debut album, Patria Añorada (1999, reissued 2004), contains songs in a variety of Hispanic-American styles and features lyrical and jazz-influenced arrangements. Nazario's music includes idioms and vernacular rooted in Puerto Rico's Jíbaro culture, evoking the nueva canción and nueva trova styles of Hispanic-American music.
1995 Nowhere Man (TV Series); Motel Clerk - Turnabout
Nazario left Los Angeles for Tokyo, where he played jazz clubs in Roppongi and acted in Japanese television commercials. After almost two years, he returned to the States with his young family and took up cooking again professionally. He became friends with Thomas Keller then an emerging chef. Together they worked on a book project, Mastering The Modern Classics [unpublished]. In 1992, Nazario, Keller, and a mutual friend happened to be in Napa Valley together when while visiting Long Vineyards, Bob Long mentioned The French Laundry was for sale. They immediately drove over to view the premises, which Keller eventually grew into a world-renowned restaurant.
1990 Doogie Howser, M.D. (TV Series); Stage Manager - Greed Is Good (as Rafael Nazario)
1989 I, Madman (Film); Lyle, Hotel Clerk (as Rafael Nazario)
1989 Moonlighting (TV Series) Waiter #2 - Those Lips, Those Lies (as Rafael A. Nazario)
1988 The Bronx Zoo (TV Series): - Crossroads (1988) ... TV series (as Raf Nazario)
1988 St. Elsewhere (TV Series); Man at the Gallery - Curtains (as Rafael A. Nazario)
1983 Boogeyman II (Film) Harvey (as Raf Nazario)
Rafael Antonio Nazario (also Raphael, or "Raf Nazario"; born July 30, 1952) is a Puerto Rican-born pianist, composer and arranger and actor. He has had a parallel career as chef, author and occasional wine writer.