Charytin
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Charytín Goyco (born May 23, 1954), better known in the show business plainly as Charytín, is a singer and actress from the Dominican Republic. Born in Santo Domingo to a Dominican father and a Spanish mother (her mother was an attorney from Asturias, Spain who found herself exiled during the regime of Francisco Franco), her mother took her and her sister to Spain after breaking up with her father. She returned to the Dominican Republic after nearly ten years of living abroad, when her parents reconciled.
Charytín moved to Puerto Rico in the 1970s, where she met her husband, television actor and producer Elin Ortiz. She immediately identified herself with Puerto Rico's living so much, that she started identifying herself as Puerto Rican. During the 1970s, she began a weekly TV show on WAPA-TV and that show lasted until 1985 every Sunday night. During the 1970s, Charytín became an international superstar, with her song Mosquita Muerta, named after a character she played on a comedy section of her show, becoming a chart topper in places like Mexico, Venezuela and Argentina. In 1979, she and Elin had their first son, Shalim, who is now a budding singer and actor that has appeared on Lizzie McGuire, among other shows.
During the 1980s, the Puerto Rican press came out with reports that she and fellow singing superstar Iris Chacon were bitter enemies, but both singers deny that to this date. Iris was married to Elin Ortiz from 1969 to 1970.
In 1983, Charytín made a movie in Spanish named Verano En Nueva York. (Summer In New York). One of the songs on that movie's soundtrack, Tu Vida Es Un Suspenso Hasta El Final, became another chart topper for Charytín. In 1986, she and Chacon acted together, alongside actor Andres Garcia, on a soap opera named Escandalo. This telenovela did not enjoy much success and was cut by half by the producers. In 1988, she moved to Miami with Elin and Shalim, and in late 1989, she became pregnant again, giving birth in 1990 to a pair of twins: a boy and a girl.
During the early 1990s, she dedicated herself to raising her twins, taking them along on the few tours she did and her several trips to Puerto Rico. Late in the 1990s, she returned to television, hosting a show for a television shopping network. In 2002, she began hosting a celebrity gossip show, Escándalo TV, for Telefutura, and rumors abounded that she and Chacon will join forces for a TV show in the future. However, these rumors never became a reality.
On August 16, 2005, the day that Madonna suffered a horse riding accident, "Escándalo TV"'s castmates decided to play a hoax on their public, saying that Charytin, who had taken that day off, had suffered a fatal car accident and her husband was severely injured. Minutes later, Charytín, visibly surprised, arrived at the show to clarify the rumors.
