When Spanish guitarist and singer Charo was growing up, she desperately sought to be the female Andrés Segovia. Instead, she became known for the ‘70s pop song “Cuchi-Cuchi” — and she’s OK with that.

Charo is no stranger to people underestimating her. Born María Rosario Pilar Martínez Molina Baeza, the Spanish actress and flamenco guitarist first appeared on American television in the '60s and ...

All in all, Charo was simply a woman ahead of her time. When she gyrated her first "cuchi, cuchi" in the 1960s, thrusting her considerable bosom forward like a demented pigeon, Britney Spears was ...

Newly minted “Dancing With the Stars” contestant Charo has two distinctions heading into Monday night’s season premiere. The Spanish native (born in Murcia) still has the thick accent that helped ...

Charo, 66, revealed three years ago just where her catchphrase came from — and it’s not what you think. “What cuchi cuchi came from is such a disappointment for everybody when they know because ...

As a small child, Charo took her first guitar lessons from gypsies who camped out near her grandparents’ farm. Then, from age 9 to 16, she studied under Andres Segovia, perhaps the most revered ...

The first time Charo remembers delivering what became her signature phrase, it was a way to flatter The Tonight Show host Johnny Carson's ego, as a publicist had advised her to do with men. After he ...

Packed into a waist-nipping pink pantsuit, Charo, the queen of “cuchi cuchi,” ripped into “La Vida Loca” with a shriek and bounded into the audience. There, she plucked Wallen Arbetter of Highland ...

Charo comes on the phone and immediately starts chattering away in that rapid-fire, Spanish-accented voice that anyone who ever watched a talk show or game show in the ’60s and ’70s still instantly ...

The last time Charo was in San Francisco, it was a challenge to recognize her. “Charo? The full-lipped chanteuse with a blond ponytail atop her head and a bazillion sequins (barely) covering her ample ...

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