Tavín Pumarejo

Octavio Ramos Pumarejo (October 12, 1932 – September 12, 2016), known professionally as Tavín Pumarejo, was a Puerto Rican jíbaro singer and comedian. While better known for his work as a comedy actor on Puerto Rican television, Pumarejo released 16 albums of Puerto Rican music, with some of them becoming major hits in the island.

Ramos Pumarejo was born on October 12, 1932, in Río Cañas, a barrio in Caguas, Puerto Rico, located closer to the mountain area of Caguas than from downtown San Juan. Having grown up in the mountains, Pumarejo identifies himself with the Puerto Rican country people (known as jíbaro) more than with the metropolitan people who are always associated with San Juan.

Ramos Pumarejo started to work on Puerto Rican television when producer Paquito Cordero began producing a noon variety show called El Show de las 12 on Telemundo Puerto Rico, WKAQ-TV. To ensure that the public remembered him, he used his relatively uncommon maternal last name as part of his stage name. Like other popular Puerto Rican characters (José Miguel Agrelot's "Don Cholito", and Machuchal), Pumarejo donned a "pava" (a Puerto Rican peasant straw hat) for his television appearances. The pava became a staple in Pumarejo's life, as he began using it in almost every personal appearance and in interviews with newspapers and magazines. Pumarejo also earned the nickname of "El Hígado de Ganso" ("The Goose's Liver", or more accurately, foie gras).

Pumarejo is well known for his self-deprecating sense of humor and physical comedy style, which closely resembles that of a young Jerry Lewis. He is also a stutterer, something to which he constantly makes humorous references in his live performances. For example, he claims that a television comedy sketch featuring himself, Adrián García and Marcos Betancourt, all stammerers, would be four hours long.

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