Joe Quijano Singer, Percussionist, Composer, Producer and Orchestra Director DATE OF BIRTH: September 27, 1935 PLACE OF BIRTH: San Juan, Puerto Rico Son of José Quijano and Luz Maria Esteras, Joe Quijano was born in the capital sector of Puerta de Tierra in San Juan. At the age of eight he went to live with his family in New York. Shortly afterwards, while attending her regular academic degrees, she began learning the piano and the solfeggio in the academy that the professor Maria Luisa Lecompte maintained in Manhattan.