Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Spanish guitarist and singer Charo was growing up, she desperately sought to be the female Andrés Segovia. Instead, she ...

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 ...

She’s bringing “Cuchi, Cuchi” to the Dancing with the Stars ballroom! When DWTS revealed its celebrity/pro pairings on Good Morning America March 1, it was announced that 65-year-old actress and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 best description of Viva la Noche, the 2013 Bridge Project Gala? “Just a crazy cuchi-cuchi evening with the one and only Charo.“ These words come from Brian Fun, who with life partner Charles ...

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I was a kid when I first saw Charo on the “Carol Burnett Show” in the late ’60s. I had never heard of the cuchi-cuchi girl, but there she was alongside Burnett who, dressed up as Charo’s mother, swung ...

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.