Pepe Luis Vázquez Silva

Vázquez's novillada Vázquez achieved considerable fame as a novillero (novice bullfighter who fights yearling bulls), with commentator Antonio Lorca observing that Vázquez's fame as a novillero reached quite a bit higher than it ever would later in his career as a matador. Thereafter, though, Vázquez still fought yearling bulls without picadores, with some successes that rather stood out, such as the one that he achieved on 20 August 1979 at Lloret de Mar, a town in Catalonia, when he was awarded both the ears from his second bull, with his two companions who shared billing that day, the Mexican matador Mariano Ramos, and the rejoneadora Emi Zambrano.

Vázquez's alternativa Vázquez took his alternativa – thus ending his novillada – in a ceremony at the Maestranza bullring in Seville on 19 April 1981.

That same year, during Huelva's Columbian Festivals, Vázquez faced a bull from the ranch of Hermanos Sampedro An autopsy confirmed shortly thereafter that Vázquez's death had been caused by an ischemic stroke, described by his brother Manuel Vázquez Silva as "fulminant".

Officiating at Vázquez's funeral was diocesan priest Antonio Romero Padilla. Among those who attended the funeral were many bullfighters, including ninety-year-old Curro Romero, considered the dean among Seville's bullfighters. Francisco "Paco" Ojeda, Espartaco, and Martín Pareja Obregón – with all of whom Vázquez had shared billing in his bullfighting days – were also there. His remains were cremated in Alcalá de Guadaíra, and the ashes were buried privately by his family.

Vázquez remained single throughout his life, and was described as being of an "introverted character".