Charo

Celebrating Maria Rosario Pilar Martinez Molina Baeza,(stage name Charo)(year of birth in dispute, documents in her birthplace of Murcia, Spain state March 13, 1941), a Spanish American actress and flamenco guitarist. Charo began playing guitar at the age of 9 and trained under the famed Andrés Segovia. In 1966 she married bandleader Xavier Cugat and moved to the United States.

Published by baldpomegranatenixon

I'm an expatriate Memphis musician and an instructor at a private music college in Minnesota. I find a greater clarity in my appreciation for music from Memphis and the Mississippi Delta region, now that I've lived away from it for decades, than when I was growing up in the midst of it.

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