Photo: Arauco Hernández, NY, 2005

Juan Pablo Rebella was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, on December 3, 1974.

In 1993 he started attending the degree of Communication Sciences at the Catholic University. There, he met Fernando Epstein, Gonzalo Delgado Galiana, and Pablo Stoll, with whom he would make two movies and create a producer.

He liked The Rolling Stones, Ramones, Pixies, and Nirvana. The Velvet, Joy Division, and Elliot Smith. The Simpsons, Beavis & Butthead, and Family Guy. Down by Law, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Back to the Future, the first film. All Star low shoes, mocasines porteños, and walkmans. Leg-tight jeans, eating at McDonalds and La Lupita, but he preferred smoking (Nevada or Marlboro light) rather than eating. He liked beer, the night, and cloudy days.

He composed and recorded hundreds of songs in his room, but played only a few times in public. He had millions of great ideas which he kept in folders or wrote in notebooks. He had a very bad idea: Juan died on July 5, 2006, he was 31 and was getting bald.

We miss him every day, every day, every day, every day.

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