LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Cherie DeCastro, the last flourishing part of of the DeCastro Sisters singing trio, has died in Las Vegas. She was 87.
Publicist and former physical education instructor Alan Eichler pronounced Monday that DeCastro died Mar fourteen of pneumonia at Valley Hospital Medical Center in Las Vegas.
Peggy, Cherie and Babette DeCastro were patterned as a Cuban version of the Andrews Sisters. In 1947, they sang "Babalu" during the initial radio programme of KTLA in Los Angeles, and had their greatest hit, "Teach Me Tonight" in 1954.
Babette died in 1992. Peggy died in 2004. Olgita Marino, a cousin who infrequently achieved when a sister was absent, died in 2000.
Cherie DeCastro lived in Las Vegas for 55 years.
She was twice divorced, and is survived by longtime partner Trevor Young. Services were secretly held.
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