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Remember Charo? Cuchi-cuchi? She plays guitar. I didn't know that. All I remember were the insipid talk show and Hollywood Squares appearances. She doesn't just play guitar - she's good. From a website I found:
One of the highlights in her shows is when she plays classical guitar. She was the winner of Guitar Player magazine's Readers Poll as Best Flamenco Guitarist two years in a row. She usually plays guitar two hours a day, but before major concerts will practice up to five hours daily. "Sometimes I think, taking the hours I give to the guitar, when I die, half of my life will have been given to that instrument."
When audiences began asking when she'll do an album spotlighting her playing, she began preparing Guitar Passion. Called "a fine flamenco-rooted album that spotlights her fluid fingerplay" (Billboard, June 10, 1995), Guitar Passion (Universal Wave Records) was named Pop Album of the Year (female artist) at the 1995 Billboard International Latin Music Conference, and reached Platinum worldwide. Charo recalls, "Guitar Passion introduced me as a musician to those who did not know I could play guitar. But while promoting it, people would ask 'What happened to 'cuchi-cuchi' and that energy and that wiggle?'."
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Date: 2006-05-15 11:08 am (UTC)From:I knew Charo played.. had seen her play on the tele back in .. oh, the seventies. She was good, but that was not what people focused on then either. They wanted to talk to her, and wanted her to wiggle.
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Date: 2006-05-16 03:06 am (UTC)From:I wonder if I did see her play, but had no idea how good she really was.
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Date: 2006-05-20 04:33 pm (UTC)From:There's always so much other stuff going on when one is talking to Charo, I'm sure you're not the only one.
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Date: 2006-05-20 04:51 pm (UTC)From:Maybe 25 or 30 years ago, I was aware that she played guitar, but I'm sure I had no idea how good she was.
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Date: 2006-05-15 02:03 pm (UTC)From:People always make fun of Liberace, for the same sorts of reasons, but the man was a damn fine pianist underneath all the trappings...
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Happy birthday and may there be lots and lots more!
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