Biography

José Navarro Prieto (Palma del Río, Córdoba; November 16, 1951), better known as Pepe Navarro, is a Spanish television presenter, journalist, television producer, and writer who has worked in television, journalism, and radio. Born to Granadian parents, when he was just two years old, his family moved to Sabadell. At the age of 10, they traveled to France, only to return to Sabadell at the age of 11. There, he began his high school studies at the Salesian Sant Oleguer School, which he abandoned at the age of 15 to work. Two years later, at 17, he completed his higher education —5th, 6th, and COU— at Jaime Balmes Institute in Barcelona, self-financing himself as an employee of El Corte Inglés selling fans, giving math and gymnastics classes, working as a waiter, DJ, footballer, etc.

He studied Scriptwriting, Writing, and Broadcasting at the Radio School of Radio Juventud in Barcelona, where he produced his first half-hour weekly program, "Welcome to Music", and collaborated in others. At the same time, he enrolled in the first year of Law at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, in Bellaterra.

He went for military service, and during his stay at the Berga barracks in Barcelona, he hitchhiked clandestinely in the afternoons, covering the 50 kilometers that separated him from Manresa. At Radio Manresa, he covered his four-hour shift daily on FM. And on Sundays, he occupied the entire afternoon programming on Medium Wave.

After completing military service in September 1974, he returned to Sabadell and enrolled in the first year of Journalism and the second year of Law at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.