catlover79
04-11-2012, 03:57 AM
I just found that out from this 1975 article:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=krZHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=V_8MAAAAIBAJ&pg=1953,1224244&dq=gregory+sierra&hl=en
"He’s a kid from New York’s Spanish Harlem where life was not always a bowl of petunias. In fact, Sierra started out with a bunch of strikes against him.
He’s a Puerto Rican – as is his character, Chano – but he was born in New York. When he was about six, both his father and mother left. For a kid, it’s hard when one parent or the other deserts the home, so you can imagine what it is when both of them leave.
“I learned to live with it,” he says, simply.
After his parents moved out, he was raised by an aunt. And, he says, there was an uncle who came over to see him every week.
“He was a very jolly and very nice man,” Sierra says. “Later, I used him not only as the model but the namesake of the character I played on Sanford & Son, Julio Fuentes.”"
:D
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=krZHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=V_8MAAAAIBAJ&pg=1953,1224244&dq=gregory+sierra&hl=en
"He’s a kid from New York’s Spanish Harlem where life was not always a bowl of petunias. In fact, Sierra started out with a bunch of strikes against him.
He’s a Puerto Rican – as is his character, Chano – but he was born in New York. When he was about six, both his father and mother left. For a kid, it’s hard when one parent or the other deserts the home, so you can imagine what it is when both of them leave.
“I learned to live with it,” he says, simply.
After his parents moved out, he was raised by an aunt. And, he says, there was an uncle who came over to see him every week.
“He was a very jolly and very nice man,” Sierra says. “Later, I used him not only as the model but the namesake of the character I played on Sanford & Son, Julio Fuentes.”"
:D