 Tato Laviera

Jesús Abraham "Tato" Laviera (September 5, 1950 – November 1, 2013), is the best-selling Hispanic poet and playwright in the United States.Born Jesús Laviera Sanches, in Santurce, Puerto Rico, he migrated to the United States at the age of ten, with his family to reside in New York City's Lower East Side.