Rafael Amaya, is a Mexican model, singer, and actor. Rafael Amaya was born in Hermosillo, Sonora, but after five years, he and his family moved to Tecate, Baja California. Since he was a small boy, Amaya has practiced a wide range of sports, especially, Athletics. Also, as a teenager, Amaya took classes in theater and music. After finishing high school, he traveled to San Diego for university studies. He returned to Mexico and started playing with various music groups, and it was with Almalafa, that he went to Mexico City. Of all the band members, Rafael was the only one who stayed in the city where he devoted his career to modeling. Then came the Centre for arts education Televisa, where he found the opportunity to make the casting of a new group, Garibaldi. Rafael split with Garibaldi, to do some acting work. It began with the novella "The House on the Beach" with the character of Romualdo, and then continuing with the novel "Conceived Without Sin" in the role of Castulo. [More at Wikipedia]

February 28th, 1977 in Hermosillo (Age 47)