Charytín Goyco

Charytín Goyco

Charytín Goyco (also: Charytín Goico ; born as María del Rosario Goico Rodríguez ; born May 23, 1954 in Santa Cruz del El Seibo ), known as Charytín , is a Dominican singer, television presenter and actress.

Charytín's parents were lawyers, her mother came from Spain and had gone into exile at the beginning of Franco's rule . After her parents separated, she spent ten years with her mother in Spain and returned to the Dominican Republic after their reconciliation.

She moved to Puerto Rico in the 1970s and was discovered as a dancer on a television program by show producer Elín Ortiz . She then became the presenter of El Show del Mediodía , which she directed until 1985. As a singer, she became known in 1978 with the international hit Mosquita Muerta . She received a Peabody Award for moderating the Las Rosas Blancas television special .

In 1984 she starred alongside Julio Alemán in the comedy Prohibido amar en Nueva York by Enrique Gómez Vadillo , to whose soundtrack she contributed two songs. She lived in Miami in the late 1980s and early 1990s and dedicated herself to raising her children.

In the late 1990s she returned to television with commercials. In 2002 she became the presenter of the Escandalo TV show on TeleFutura . As an actress, she later had leading roles in the films Mi Suegra y Yo by Roberto Angel Salcedo (2016) and Broche de Oro: Comienzos by Raúl Marchand Sánchez (2017).

Charytín was married to Elín Ortiz from 1974 until his death in 2016. Her children Shalim Ortiz and Sharinna Allan also pursued a career as an actor, her son Alexander Goyco became a cameraman and director.

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• Conectate: Biografía de Charytín Goico "La Rubia de América"
• Charityn at Discogs (English)
• Charytín Goyco at Allmusic (English)