Rafael Mercadane Mena is an actor

Actor

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, television host

Presenter

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, singer and radio

Radio

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 DJ

Disc jockey

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 who has worked in both Mexico

Mexico

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 and the United States. In the 1990s he was cast in soap opera

Soap opera

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s such as El Manantial

El Manantial

El Manantial is a Mexican telenovela that first aired in 2001, starring Adela Noriega and Mauricio Islas."The Best Telenovela of the Year 2002" - Plot summary :...

and El Privilegio de Amar

El Privilegio de Amar

El Privilegio de Amar is a Mexican telenovela. It was produced by Televisa and broadcast on El Canal de las Estrellas from 27 July 1998 through 26 February 1999...

, as well performing in films and plays. He later went on to host several television programs, and in 2007, won an Emmy Award

Emmy Award

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 after hosting "El Desfile de las Rosas" (The Rose Parade) for Univision

Univision

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, in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, California

California

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.

From 2000 - 2002, he presented a Mexican radio program. La Pijama and has also produced three albums, with songs in the Norteño

Norteño (music)

Norteño , also norteña or conjunto, is a genre of Mexican music. The accordion and the bajo sexto are norteño's most characteristic instruments. The norteño genre is popular in both Mexico and the United States, especially among the Mexican community...

 and Duranguense

Duranguense

Duranguense is a genre of Mexican music. It is popular among the Mexican-American community in the United States. Duranguense is closely related to the Mexican styles of banda and norteño. The main instruments, which are held over from banda, are the saxophone, trombone, and bass drum...

 genres. In 2003, he joined the U.S. Spanish-language television network

Television network

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 as a host and producer

Television producer

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 where he was nominated for a "Revelacion Juvenil" (Young Revelation ) Award in the TVyNovelas Awards

Premios TVyNovelas

The TVyNovelas Awards, also known as the Premios TVyNovelas are presented annually by Televisa and the magazine TVyNovelas to honour the best Mexican television productions, especially telenovelas. Instituted in 1983, the award ceremony is held in Forum Mundo Imperial in Acapulco...

.

Early life

He first appeared on television aged ten on a local channel in Monterrey

Monterrey

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 with a dancing team, "Rafael y su Ballet", and later was involved in another group, "Karma" which performed in Saltillo

Saltillo

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, Coahuila

Coahuila

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. In 1993 Mercadante received a scholarship

Scholarship

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 from Mexican media company Televisa

Televisa

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 to study at the Centro de Educacion Artistica

Centro de Educación Artística

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 (Center for Artistic Education) in Mexico City from which he graduated in 1995.

Theater

Year	Title
1991	Vaselina
1991	Jesucristo Superestrella Jesus Christ Superstar Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Tim Rice. The musical started off as a rock opera concept recording before its first staging on Broadway in 1971...
1992	Monte Calvo
1993	La Mudanza
1994	El Inspector
1995	El Libro de la Selva
1996	Piratas
1996	Power Rangers
1997	Dumbo
1998	Besame Salvaje
1998	Navaja Caliente
1999	Cenicienta
1999	El Enfermo Imaginario
2003	Todos tenemos Problemas Sexuales
2003	La Bella y la Bestia

Television

• Pioneer Host satellite TV ( SKY )

Canal Banda Max, programas: "La Ley del Top" " Y Sigue la
Furia Dando " 97,98 ( SKY )

• TV Host Ritmoson 98,99,00 ( Cablevision )
• Programas "Top 5 Grupero", "Grito Norteno", "Reventados".(SKY)
• Tv Host "Premios Furia Musical" 98,99,00,01 (Televisa )
• Tv Host "Acapulco Fest" 99,00,01,02,04 ( Televisa )
• Tv Host "Fiesta Mexicana" 99,00,01,02,04 ( Televisa )
• Tv Host "Especial Los Tigres del Norte en el Zocalo"( Televisa )
• Tv Host "Temerarios en el Estadio Azteca" ( Televisa )
• Tv Host "Que Todo Mexico se Entere" TV Show "HOY"
• Tv Host Programa "Todo Se Vale" (Televisa)
• Tv Host Programa "Reventon Musical" (Televisa)
• Tv Host Grito Mexicano 04,05, 06,07(Univision)
• Tv Host Red Carpet (Premios Juventud, Univision) 04,05,06,07,08
• Tv Host Programa "Accesso Total" (Premios Juventud) (Univision )04,05,06,07,08
• Tv Host "Festival del Mariachi" 04,05 (Univision)
• Tv Host Invitado Programa "Escandalo Tv "(Telefutura)04,05,06,07
• Tv Host "Premios Furia Musical" 04,05,06,07(Univision)
• Tv Host "Premios TV y Novelas" 05,07 (Univision)
• Tv Host "Noche de estrellas de Tv y novelas" (Univision)05,07
• Tv Host Co-Tv Host "Fin de Año" 04,05,06 (Univision)
• Tv Host Invitado programa "Despierta America" 05,06,07 (Univision)
• Tv Host " Rumbo a Premio Lo nuestro" 06 (Galavision)
• Tv Host and Asoociate Producer Programa "Caliente" (Univision) 03,04,05,06
• Tv Host " Las Mananitas de Guadalupe " 06,07,08( Univision )
• Tv Host " Desfile de las Rosas 06 ,08" GANADOR DEL EMMY(Univision)
• Tv Host " El Juego Supremo " 08 (Univision )
• Anchor and Entertainment Reporter " Primer Impacto fin de semana " 06,07,08,09(Univision)

Soap Operas

• Agujetas de Color de Rosa (1994)
• Gente Bien
• Retrato de Familia
• El Privilegio de Amar
  El Privilegio de Amar
  El Privilegio de Amar is a Mexican telenovela. It was produced by Televisa and broadcast on El Canal de las Estrellas from 27 July 1998 through 26 February 1999...
  
  
• El Manantial
  El Manantial
  El Manantial is a Mexican telenovela that first aired in 2001, starring Adela Noriega and Mauricio Islas."The Best Telenovela of the Year 2002" - Plot summary :...
  
  

Records

• Mi Joven Corazon (2001 )
• Rafael Mercadante Acompanado de Patrulla 81 y Control (2006)
• Estas ganas que tengo (2008)