Hector Marcano is a Puerto Rican comedian, producer, and game show host in Puerto Rico.[1]
Hector Marcano was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, on November 3, 1956. Marcano's career took off after Luis Vigoreaux's death. He started hosting A Millon with Sonia Noemí, and Rafael Jose, the #1 television game show for several years.
In 1987, as the host, (alongside El Gangster) of Super Siete's La Hora de Oro. Later that year, his wedding with Ivette Rivera-Lisojo was one of the most publicized weddings in Puerto Rican entertainment history, being shown live on Puerto Rican television. Vea, a show biz magazine, produced a wedding album about the event.
In 1990 Marcano moved to Telemundo to start a new show Marcano... el show.[2] The show became so popular, it was one the highest rated television shows of those times, although it was controversial because of its copy of the Arsenio Hall Show. In 1996, he moved to WAPA-TV, and produced a new game show called Vale Mas, and in 1998, another successful show called El Super Show. In the year 2000, he moved again, but this time to Tele-Once and continued with the latter show for a while. Later, during this year, he created Que Suerte que es Domingo. The latter suffered two changes in the title: Que Suerte Tienes Tu, and in 2002, Que Suerte, his longest running show, and top in the ratings consequently, broadcast by UnivisionIt was broadcasted in Puerto Rico, New York, etc . He has been recently fired from the show, less than two months after one of the models of the show, Maripily, resigned. Marcano is now in Channel 24, Caribevision, with a show called Fenomenal. In July 2009 his show Fenomenal was cancelled by economic problems of the channel 24. After that he became the host of Anda Pa'l Cará in Univision and was fired too.