Noted Vega Alta musician Knight Nater dies

Musician and bandleader Elliot Arturo Knight Nater (Facebook Jorge E. Seijo-Figueroa)

By The Star Staff

Vega Alta has lost one of its most distinguished artistic talents, musician and bandleader Elliot Arturo Knight Nater, who passed away over the weekend.

Educator Brenda Rubio Mena said the musician’s career was one of great quality.

Rubio Mena, who was a student of Knight’s wife, shared a classroom with the couple’s youngest son.

“It was certainly a pleasure to hear the melodies when he rehearsed at the Osvaldo Correa Community Center in Santa Rita,” she recalled. “Always a gentleman, he has left an indelible mark on the memory of all Vegalteños. My deepest condolences to his entire family, especially to his wife Blanca Castro, who was one of my beloved teachers, to his children and grandchildren.”

Knight worked for many years in the private sector and always had the time and space to create quality music,” Rubio Mena noted. He made his own musical arrangements and presented his works to personalities such as former New York governor David Patterson and a task force of then-President Barack Obama that met in Puerto Rico, as well as at conventions, and private and official activities in Puerto Rico, she said.