About 1945, Dávila Medina was living in Vega Alta, a northern city in Puerto Rico near the country's capital of San Juan, when he decided to travel to San Juan and meet the musicians on that show, namely Leocadio Vizcarrondo, Samuel Archilla, Felipe Goyco and three other musicians who formed a popular, Puerto Rican radio music band of the time.
[5] On May 12, 2011, Puerto Rican governor Luis Fortuño Burset inaugurated the Centro de Bellas Artes Iluminado Dávila Medina in Morovis,[6] a theater and musical venue that, since 2019, has a mosaic depicting its namesake,[7] reminiscent of the one dedicated to basketball player Mario Morales at the Mario Morales Coliseum in Guaynabo, another large Puerto Rican city.
The Puerto Rican Senate passed a resolution on April 18, 2018, congratulating Iluminado Dávila Medina for his musical career and in recognition of his soon-to-be 100th birthday.
[4] Davila featured in the documentary series Crónicas 90, which highlighted the achievements of Puerto Ricans who had reached the age of 90.
Other people featured in the series included: Frank H. Wadsworth, José R. Alicea, Victoria Espinosa, Nellie Vera Sánchez and Flavia Lugo de Marichal.