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Richard Valdez
Richard Claude Valdez was born
in Trinidad, of English-Lebanese
and Scottish-Spanish heritage.
He was educated in Port-of-Spain at
Franceschi Private School; Belmont Boys
Intermediate Roman Catholi...view moreRichard Claude Valdez was born
in Trinidad, of English-Lebanese
and Scottish-Spanish heritage.
He was educated in Port-of-Spain at
Franceschi Private School; Belmont Boys
Intermediate Roman Catholic School
and by the Order of The Holy Ghost
Fathers at Our Lady of Fatima Collegefrom
which he graduated. From his very
early schooling, he exhibited a keen
interest in literature and voraciously
immersed himself in reading poetry
and literature of the English masters.
In Trinidad, he held a variety of
employment positions with the firms:
George F. Huggins; Gordon Grant
and Pan American World Airways. He
immigrated to Toronto, Canada in 1970
and began studies in English Literature
and music at The University of Toronto
and The Royal Conservatory of Music.
To subsidise his studies, he worked in a
wide variety of jobs as manual labourer;
landscaper; machine operator and
building maintenance. Later he was
employed by the Canadian Civil
Service in a variety of clerical and supervisory positions. He joined the teaching staff of the
Toronto District School Board in 1986 and retired from the profession in 2003.
During his mottled employment career, he continued to write poetry-storing away his work-in
the hope of future publication. Aperture is his first publication of poetry; his second, entitled,
“The Promise of the Rainbow Through My Tears”, will be published in 2010. He is currently
working on his first novel with the theme of homelessness on the streets of Toronto.
A classical vocalist by profession-in the field of opera and concert-he continues to perform
in Canada; The United States; The Caribbean and Europe. He has added a new dimension to
his musical career by composing the music to his poems, “Four Songs of Love, Loss, Languor
and Longing”, to be debuted in the autumn of 2009.
He resides in Toronto and northern Florida with frequent visits to his ancestral home in Trinidad & Tobago.view less