bio

Ramiro Quezada was born December 27, 1953 in Montemorellos, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

His father, Fernando Quezada Galindo, was also a paino player. When Ramiro was 15 years old his father said to him, "There is no more money to study. You have to work!" Ramiro took a job in a furniture factory for 70 pesos a week but he kept playing the piano with his father — learning chords, how to read music, and how to change the key of the songs to be able to accompany singers.

Ramrio went to The National Conservatory of Music in Mexico City, but says that the real knowledge came from his father and, later in Canada, from his jazz teacher LLoyd Abrams.


When he was 18, Ramiro got his first job playing the piano in Mexico. The piano player in this restaraunt played 7 nights a week. The ownwer offered Sundays to Ramiro for 70 pesos — the same amount he earned for 6 days at the factory. He quit  the factory and the rest is history.

Ramiro's first job began in 1973. For the past 25 years, he has worked at all the main hotels in Vancouver.

He has raised a family of two sons, David and Alex, with his wife Debby, who is a gifted artist. Despite feelings of nostalgia towards Mexico in the last 25 years, Ramiro calls beautiful British Columbia his home.