Rudy Amado Pérez was born on May 14, 1958, in Pinar del Río, Cuba, to Baptist parents. His grandfather was a Baptist minister. Pérez's father, Rudy Amado, was a painter, religious minister and writer, who served as lieutenant in the army of Cuban former president Fulgencio Batista, and was imprisoned following the Cuban Revolution of 1959, due to his involvement in prior conflict with Castro's