Jesus quintero

Jesús Rodríguez Quintero (San Juan del Puerto, Huelva, August 18, 1940 – Ubrique, Cádiz, October 3, 2022), better known as Jesús Quintero or El Loco de la Colina, was a journalist, director and presenter of Spanish radio and television programs.

Trajectory

He began his career at Radio Popular de Huelva and from there he went on to work in Seville and Madrid. One of her first hits was Estudio 15-18 on Radio Nacional de España, which she presented for two seasons together with Marisol Valle, aunt of Queen LetiziaF. It was a great success and the star program of the period of normalization of public radio programming in the transition from dictatorship to democracy.

His most successful programs, with which he revolutionized the schemes of the medium, were El hombre de la roulotte and El loco de la colina. The latter made him a journalistic phenomenon, reaching Argentina and Uruguay, and with it, creating his own school.

In 1991 he presented the program Thirteen nights on Canal Sur. There were thirteen interviews, in thirteen nights and lasting one hour, with the writer Antonio Gala, each dealing with a specific topic.

He also intervened as a lecturer in the teaching world, he gave the conference Journalism and Commitment on October 17, 2002 at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the University of Malaga, on the occasion of his tenth anniversary. After this intervention, he discovered a plaque that named one of the center's classrooms after him, a sign of the respect and admiration that the journalist inspired.

He was the producer of the singer Soledad Bravo and the guitarist Paco de Lucía.

He is the author of the books Thirteen nights (1999), together with Antonio Gala, Cuerda de Presos (1997) and Jesús Quintero: interview (2007).

In 2020 he presented the project of his foundation, called Fundación Quintero, located in his hometown, San Juan del Puerto. He had the project of turning it into a cultural center of the first order and, for this, he donated the documentation related to his professional career, among which were ten thousand hours of his television programs. He passed away before putting it into operation.

Death

Jesús Quintero died on October 3, 2022 at the Nuestra Señora de los Remedios residence in Ubrique, in Cádiz, due to respiratory failure, according to family sources. Quintero passed away while taking a nap. He is buried in the Municipal Cemetery of San Juan del Puerto de Huelva.

Private life

He had a sentimental relationship, first, with the singer Soledad Bravo, and later with the bailaora Merche Esmeralda. Later he married Ángeles Urrutia with whom he had his daughter Adrea; His second marriage was with the journalist Joana Bonet from which his daughter Lola was born, finally, in 2020, he married María.

His successful journalistic career, developed on radio and television during the eighties and nineties of the 20th century, provided him with a considerable fortune that in the end seriously diminished as a result of failed business projects. This would be the case of his Teatro Quintero in Seville, open on the premises of the old Cine Pathé inaugurated in 1925, which, after a brilliant program that began in 2007, had to close in 2019 for non-payment of rent. Something similar happened with the Montpensier Concert Hall, opened in the old Luna Park venue, a bar built for the Ibero-American Exhibition in Seville in 1929.

Jesús Quintero was quite close to the small town of Marigenta (Huelva) where he came to buy a house. He had numerous friends and family in Marigenta. His niece was Moza de la Bandera in Santa Cruz de Marigenta in 2006, thus participating in the town's major festivities.

Programs

Radius

• Music from the 5 continents.
• International circle.
• Study 15/18.
• 120.
• Cities.
• The man of the roulotte.
• Three at three.
• Living Andalusia.
• Crazy hill (1981-1986). RNE and Cadena SER.
• Radio America.
• The wolf(1992). Onda Cero Música.
• Between two lights(2002). Radio workshop Jesús Quintero, municipal station of San Juan del Puerto

Television

• The green dog (1988) on TVE, Teledoce retransmission from Uruguay.
• Nobody knows. (1990-1991) in Canal Sur, Canal 13 retransmission from Argentina.
• Thirteen nights (1991-1992) in Canal Sur.
• The mouth of the wolf (1992-1993) in Antena 3.
• Curfew of prisoners (1995-1996) in Antena 3.
• The green dog (1997) in Teledoce Uruguay, Azul Television broadcast from Argentina.
• The vagamund (1999-2002) in Canal 2 Andalucía - Canal Sur y Telemadrid.
• Colored beads (2002-2004) in Canal Sur.
• Crazy hill (2006) on TVE.
• The night of Quintero (2007) on TVE.
• Colored beads (2007-2009) in Canal Sur, Telemadrid and 7RM.
• The World of Jesus Quintero (summer 2008) in Canal Sur.
• The catpardo (2010-2012) in Canal Sur.
• Crazy night in DIRECTV.
• The sun, the salt and the South Channel.
• Crazy is me. South Channel.
• A Crazy in America in Telemundo Internacional.

Awards

• The 2006 Middle National Communication Award awarded by the Andalusian Pain Association (May 2006).
• Television presenter of the year, granted by the group Vocento (Punto Radio Bilbao) for his professional career (May 2006).
• Antenna Gold for her program The vagamundgranted by the Federation of Radio and Television Associations (2003).
• Ondas Prize (2001) for Journalism to the most innovative program The Vagamundo.
• Prize Best Millennium Interviewer by their interview programs, given by the analysts of the Corporación Multimedia Group.
• Prize Andaluz 2000 awarded by the Al-Andalus Awards.
• Prize King of Spain of journalism, 1990.
• Ondas International Prize, 1990.
• Medal of Andalusia, 1987.
• Knight Andante de Argamasilla de Alba.
• Award for the most innovative Radio Act, awarded by Radio Directors.