Luis Antonio Rivera a.k.a. "Yoyo Boing" (born April 9, 1930) is a
comedian, actor and television show host, who was also one of the
pioneers of Puerto Rican television.Rivera was born in Humacao, Puerto
Rico and his parents moved to Santurce, a section of San Juan, from
Humacao when he was only three years old. After receiving his primary
education, Rivera attended the "Escuela Superior Central de Santurce"
(Central High School of Santurce). He found a part-time job at a local
radio station which opened the doors to a new world for him.Rivera
became a member of the Drama Department of the University of Puerto
Rico. As a drama student, he participated in two of René Marqués'
plays. Having a deep baritone voice he also became a radio presenter.
His radio station dramatized comedy sketches, and one of the producers
suggested dramatizing Archie Comics over the radio. Due to the lack of
audiovisual references for the characters at the time, there were no
clear cut ways of representing the characters in Spanish, nor there
were exact translations for their names. Rivera came up with the name
of Yoyo Boing for representing Jughead; the name "Yoyo" sounded close
to "Jughead", and the "Boing" part was a gimmick Rivera developed for
the character: a vocalized "boing" that he constantly repeated to fill
in silence gaps during each episode. Ever since his Archie stint on
Puerto Rican radio, Puerto Ricans rarely refer to Rivera using his
real name, and usually refer to him by his by-now "nickname".1954 was
the year that television was born in Puerto Rico. Rivera, together
with Tommy Muñiz, José Miguel Agrelot and Paquito Cordero was one of
the first comedians in Puerto Rican television. In 1960, he starred.
alongside Norma Candal (Petunia) in a television comedy called "La
CrÃada MalcrÃada" (The Rude Maid). In the 1970s, Rivera starred in
own sit-com called "Mi Hippie Me Encanta" (I'm Crazy about My Hippie)
broadcast by Telemundo. In the 1980s, Rivera starred in the situation
comedies, "Generaciones", (Generations), with Chayanne, "Los Suegros"
(The In-Laws) and later in a spin-off of that show called "Los Suegros
y Los Nietos" (The In-Laws and the Grandchildren), broadcast by
WAPA-TV. Rivera was also the General Manager of radio stations WKBM-AM
("AM 81") and WORO-FM ("Radio Oro", or Golden Radio), the radio
branches of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan. Luis Antonio Rivera Biography, Weight & Height, Age, Nationality & Ethnicity
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