John Alvaro Caldas: Artist Without Ego

John Alvaro Caldas was born in Rusholme, Manchester in 1934. He showed an early talent for painting and drawing but chose to become a dancer, moving to London in 1952. He taught Tango and Latin American dance and had a successful stage career in the West End. His great love, however, was jazz and John left the theatre to play the drums professionally in and around Manchester from the late fifties to the mid sixties before settling once more in London and spent the remainder of his life as a painter.