[1] Pabón was born in Quisqueya, San Pedro de Macorís Province, Dominican Republic, the son of Melba Cantin Rovira (born in San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic, to Oscar Cantin, a Swiss American from Louisiana, and Angelina Rovira Carbó, a Puerto Rican from Arroyo) and Mario Pabón Urrutia (from Llanos Costa, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico).
Feeling lonely, Pabón returned to Puerto Rico to be with Catala after having won a singing contest which provided an airplane ticket to San Juan as a prize.
[1] Pabón initially collaborated in the acting field with such luminaries as Mercedes Sicardo's husband, Jose Luis Marrero, and Maria Judith Franco.
[1] Pabón was then given an opportunity to appear in front of the cameras for the second time, when he acted in a series of mini-telenovelas that were sponsored by the Colgate-Palmolive and Fab detergent brands.
Telemundo was pleased with the young man's talents and so, Pabón was then signed to one of the first exclusivity contracts in Puerto Rico, increasing his acting opportunities and therefore, his celebrity status in the Caribbean island-nation, Pabón appearing in over 30 telenovelas over the next decades, including classics such as "El Derecho de Nacer" ("The Right to be Born") and acting alongside legends like Marta Romero, Gladys Aguayo, Argentine Helena Montalban and Gladys Rodriguez.
[1] In 1986, barely recuperating from a heart operation, Pabón played the main character in a miniseries named "Las Divorciadas" ("The Divorced Women"), where he was reunited with his old, on-screen couple Helena Montalbán of Argentina.
[1] Pabón also produced "La Fuga" ("The Escape") a major mini-series starred by Walter Rodriguez and Jaime Bello.