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March 29, 2024

Charo

Charo does a little audience interaction in a performance Wednesday at the Riviera. In the show, the Spanish-born performer embraces her caricature.
Playful and ageless, Charo a sultry sensation still
REVIEW:
Monday, July 20, 2009
There is a framed black-and-white photograph of Charo on the wall at the Riviera. It is dated 1982. That was 27 years ago. Charo somehow looks even better now.
‘Cuchi-cuchi’ returns to Las Vegas
‘Cuchi-cuchi’ returns to Las Vegas
MUSIC: The guitar-wielding, singularly named Charo begins a five-month engagement at Riviera
Thursday, July 9, 2009
What’s Las Vegas without a little “cuchi-cuchi”? t’s been almost four years since Charo last headlined a show here, getting the town shaking with her unrestrained energy. The Latin dynamo returns Friday to start a five-month engagement at the Riviera.
VegasBeat -- Timothy McDarrah: Charo is VH1's 'Surreal' deal
Saturday, June 19, 2004
WEEKEND EDITION
VegasBeat -- Timothy McDarrah: Sides seething over Charo's Sevilla split
Friday, May 16, 2003
Nothing like some high-profile entertainment folks zinging insults at one another.
Charo Nation
Friday, January 17, 2003
WEEKEND EDITION: Jan. 19, 2003
VegasBeat -- Timothy McDarrah: Charo y Aladdin hacen buena pareja
Wednesday, December 4, 2002
Charo is leaving Sahara, where she has been a periodic headliner for decades.
Expiration Dates: Productions don't live long at The Venetian Showroom
Friday, July 5, 2002
"Signed, Sealed, Delivered," considered by some observers to have been one of the best shows to occupy the room, is the latest casualty. It bows out Saturday, six weeks after the opening curtain.
'Bravo' to Charo and Co. at new Sahara home
Friday, May 17, 2002
Charo, starring in "Bravo," which recently moved to the Sahara Congo Room from The Venetian Showroom, presents the most authentic, high- energy, contemporary Spanish music, dance and comedy spectacular to play Las Vegas on a regular basis.
Charo sends Bush video message
Friday, February 15, 2002
"I admire all the job you're doing about the terrorists," Charo told the president in a video message she recorded Thursday at Las Vegas City Hall. "But leave nuclear waste where it is. Everybody in Las Vegas is very worried."
Showroom at The Venetian shakes with Charo's 'Bravo'
Friday, December 7, 2001
If Charo doesn't have a long stay on the Strip, Las Vegas should relinquish its title of "Entertainment Capital of the World" to Branson, Mo.
Columnist Joe Delaney: Country acts, Charo, Anka populate area stages
Thursday, December 6, 2001
Can it be nearly 40 years since a very young, very anxious Paul Anka asked me if he was doing the wise thing in opening for Sophie Tucker in the Sahara Congo Room, now the site of Steve Wyrick's show? ... Anka opened the early show and at Tucker's insistence, closed the midnight performance, and was the closing act with co-equal billing the rest of the engagement.
Still shakin'
Friday, November 30, 2001
Charo is ageless. Really. No one seems to know for sure how old the "cuchie-cuchie" girl is a mystery she has fun with.
Columnist Joe Delaney: Charo gets hearty welcome back to Strip
Thursday, November 15, 2001
Stuart knows Las Vegas ... His "Legends In Concert" concept has been a winner internationally, still going strong here ... Bill Moore, another Las Vegan with a successful producing career, is also involved ... With the recent Robert Goulet/Venetian debacle in mind, will Charo & Co. be able to pay the rental fee, pay the ticket brokers, all expenses, and be left with enough for herself?
Joe Delaney remembers 1979: Charo at the Sahara
Friday, January 26, 2001
Joe Delaney remembers 1979: Charo at the Sahara