Walter Mercado Astrologer- Always Will Be Remembered

Walter Mercado Salinas, also known by his stage name Shanti Ananda, was a Puerto Rican astrologer, actor, dancer, and writer, best known as a television personality for his shows as an astrologer.

Born: March 9, 1932, Ponce, Puerto Rico
Died: November 2, 2019, Hospital Auxilio Mutuo, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Resting place: Señorial Memorial Park, Cupey, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Books: Beyond the Horizon: Visions of the New Millennium
Movies and TV shows: Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado, Celebrity Habla 2
Nationality: American, Puerto Rican

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A large number of Latin American fans know Walter Mercado as the showy TV character who went through years telling watchers their horoscopes while wearing his sequined capes, signaling with his agile hands and broadcasting his cherishing "Mucho, mucho love!" outro. Be that as it may, there's a decent possibility they don't have the foggiest idea where Mercado went, and why he left the air, after his last crystal gazing show in 2006.
In Netflix narrative "Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado," spilling now (which was shot before Mercado kicked the bucket in November at 87), Mercado shares his story, from growing up as an "alternate" kid to being something of a loner in his last decade.
Indeed, even in his 80s, Mercado drew vitality from the focal point of a camera pointed his direction, and makes certain to procure new admirers in the movie coordinated by Cristina Costantini ("Science Fair") and Kareem Tabsch ("The Last Resort"). Here are five things that even long-lasting Mercado aficionados may find out about the onscreen mystic in the narrative. He didn't plan to have a crystal gazing show

In 1969, the artist and on-screen character Mercado didn't plan to begin monologuing on TV about zodiac signs. Yet, as a visitor on a daytime television show, he was gotten some information about soothsaying – something he was continually discussing among companions – while advancing a play in which he featured as an extravagantly dressed Hindu ruler.

As Mercado recollects that, he ended up talking "from the heart" about crystal gazing for 15 minutes in a row. Mercado's collaborator, Willie Acosta, reviews the senior supervisor of Telemundo mentioning that Mercado returns the following day in a similar ensemble for another scene. The extemporized celestial speech transformed into a one-hour show that ran into the '90s.
He incidentally gave his supervisor the rights to his name

In "Mucho Amor," Mercado portrays his previous chief, Bill Bakula, similar to a gift from heaven who propelled his profession. In any case, Bakula additionally drafted an agreement that gave himself complete rights to Mercado's work and even his name. Mercado says he marked the record with a legal counselor's favoring, yet didn't peruse the content himself.
Bakula says in the film that his previous customer "got paid by the agreement," yet Mercado's companions state he indiscriminately marked the structure and couldn't utilize his name expertly, significantly after decades in the open eye, until the brand name contest was settled.

Mercado recorded the last scene in 2006 and stayed away forever to TV. He sued Bakula for the rights to his name in a fight in court that continued for a considerable length of time until Mercado, at last, had his privileges and resemblance returned.
He recouped from respiratory failure in 2011

Mercado had a coronary episode two days after he won the claim and says he recouped and seeing what he thought were holy messengers in paradise. As indicated by the Associated Press, Mercado was hospitalized in December 2011, yet the cardiovascular failure was not pitched at that point.

In May 2019, Mercado had another significant well-being concern. Seven days before showing up at the HistoryMiami Museum to praise a display about his life, he fell and broke a rib and harmed his back. The diseases didn't prevent him from leading meetings and showing up at the exhibition hall festivity. Mercado kicked the bucket from kidney disappointment three months after the occasion.
Mercado spent his last a very long time in Puerto Rico

Where did Mercado follow he quit showing up on TV like a VIP mystic and soothsayer? The film shows him in his San Juan home with his colleague. The rooms are loaded up with work of art of Mercado's resemblance, strict talismans, and heaps of extravagant extras. The colleague, Acosta, isn't a darling, the two demand. They're progressively similar to a family.

"I have sex with the breeze, the blossoms, the nursery," says Mercado, who's never marked his sexual personality and suggests in the film that he's a virgin. "I needn't bother with an individual to fulfill me."