Alberto Vazquez-Figueroa is a native of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. He was born on October 11, 1936. In early childhood, his family was deported for political reasons to Africa, where he lived between Morocco and the Sahara until the age of sixteen. In his youth, he worked as a diving teacher aboard the training ship Cruz del Sur. Since 1962, having studied journalism, he began working as a special correspondent for Spanish Television.