 Pedro Zamora was born in Diezmero, San Miguel del Padrón, on the outskirts of Havana, Cuba, to Héctor Zamora, a food-warehouse worker, and Zoraida Díaz, a housewife.Zamora was their eighth and youngest child.Díaz had been told she could not have any more children, thus Zamora's birth on a leap day was seen as charmed.