Walter Quesada – Costa Rica
Walter was born January 7th, 1988 in San Jose, Costa Rica. He was raised in the indigenous community of Guauitil in the Guanacaste province. He had an affinity towards arts at a young age, but he didn’t live in an area that offered a place to study or develop one´s artistic skills.
At age 9 he joined the chorus in church. At age 13 he traveled to the province of Heredia to live with his father who is an artist. There he enrolled in his new school and joined the theatrical club. He also joined the chorus from the Costa Rica National University and traveled across the country performing with Vocal Professor Ana Salas. At the age of 17 he decided to quit in order to finish his studies.
He enrolled at the National Technical University of Costa Rica at 19 to study acting, theater, and television with Professor Marco Ayala. Juggling school and work proved to be too much for Walter at the time so he dropped out. Today he´s studying Social Planning at the National University of Costa Rica.
Walter will be representing Costa Rica in “Batalla de las Americas”.
Favorites:
Food:
Italian food
Ice cream:
Vanilla with chocolate chips
Color
Black, blue, yellow
Music:
Working out, studying, listening to music, hanging out with my family
Hobbies:
Working out, studying, listening to music, hanging out with my family
Tv Shows:
Grey´s Anatomy, The Simpsons, That 70´s Show, Argentinean version of the Nanny, And Married with children in Argentinean.
Fashion:
Urban Casual
Interview - Know our finalists
1. Do you like to sing in the shower? And if so, what songs?
Yes, I love it. I sing anything that comes to mind I love music by Alex Ubago or Bob Marley.
2. If you could trade places with somebody, who would you do it with?
Martin Luther King, because of his ideological way of thinking and the way he fought for human rights and worried about others.
3. When you were a kid, what did you used to do to make your mother angry?
When I was a kid, I was very troublesome so my mom normally had plenty to get angry at me for, but somewhere around my tenth birthday she got some immunity against me and kind of figured out a way to tune me out.
4. What is the most embarrassing thing that has happened to you?
The most embarrassing thing is that I never get names and faces right, I´m always confusing people, I’m really bad at that even today
5. What are you most afraid of?
I´m afraid of being alone, also snakes, and specially to be unable to fulfill my dreams, to die without tasting success.
6. What was one of the happiest times in your life?
I´m always happy, but the two occasions that stand out are the birth of my kid brother Fabian that brought a special kind of light to my life along with a best friend, and the other was when my mom showed up on my town´s spiritual reunion that I went to and never expected her to be there. Also every time I can get to meet new people are happy days for me.
7. Did you have a nickname when you were a kid? And what was it?
Yes they used to call me “cabeza de perro” (Dog Head) I´m not sure, but I think is because I´m very hard headed.
8. If you could ask for one wish, what would it be?
Stop war, hunger and make the world a place to live as brothers.
9. What place would you like to visit?
I would love to visit Africa
10. If you where to be stranded on a deserted island, what book, movie, person and/or food would you take with you?
Most of the time, everybody lives in their own deserted islands in their own worlds, my best companion is my God, he never leaves me.
Walter Quesada
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