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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Charo may be an icon of the '70s, but she's still shimmying all over the place. "My grandmother had a dog that she picked from some place that was going to let the dog die. He had broken something in ...

Comedienne and actress Charo wiggled, giggled and jiggled her way across TV and movie screens in the 1970s and 1980s. Even if you don't know the name, you know the image — curvaceous, blond, wearing a ...

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.