Walter Mercado, who first appeared on TV in 1970, but to whom I was introduced in the late ‘80s, was my first encounter with astrology.

Walter Mercado in Mucho, Mucho Amor. netflix Mercado died in his native Puerto Rico on Nov. 2, 2019 at the age of 87 from kidney failure.

Walter Mercado will make you laugh, make you surprised, make you raise an eyebrow or two. And he will bring you to tears with his sincerest wish that you have love, the "Mucho mucho amor" from which ...

Walter Mercado’s intimate world at his home in San Juan, Puerto Rico, was a universe of treasures that he had bought or had been given on his travels around the world.

For decades Walter Mercado captivated households in el barrio and had mothers silencing loud children with threats of chancletazos whenever he came on TV to give his daily horoscopes before ...

“Walter opened the doors for me to innumerable opportunities in life, exposing me to the arts, and among those things, I chose to paint,” said Benet Mercado, who graduated from the Puerto ...

Walter Mercado is known for his fancy, mystical and over-the-top capes and his daily horoscope readings, which he gave for many years on national… ...

Puerto Rican astrologist Walter Mercado, who died last year on Nov. 2, is one of the most recognizable figures in Latinx culture — for his horoscope breakdowns, his bedazzled capes, and above ...

More recently, Mercado — who hailed from Puerto Rico — was the subject of the 2020 Netflix documentary “Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado.” ...

Mercado was 87 when he died in November, not long after the doc had wrapped. “He’s our Mr. Rogers and our Oprah and our Liberace all combined into one,” Costantini said.

At his peak, 120 million people watched Walter Mercado’s televised horoscope. Then, he disappeared from public view. The filmmakers behind the documentary shed light on the mystery.

Walter Mercado Salinas was born in 1932 in Ponce, Puerto Rico, the son of a Puerto Rican father and a Catal n mother. From an early age he was always convinced of his spiritual abilities and his reach ...