| Margarita Sierra | |
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Margarita Sierra, Troy Donohue, Lee Patterson, Diane McBain and Van Williams in Surfside 6 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Maria Margarita Suarez Sierra |
| Also known as | Margarita Sierra |
| Born | January 5, 1936 Madrid, Spain |
| Died | September 6, 1963 (aged 27) Hollywood, California |
| Occupations | Live performer Dancer Vocalist |
| Years active | 1940 – 1963 |
Margarita Sierra (January 5, 1936 - September 6, 1963), born as Maria Margarita Suarez Sierra in Madrid, Spain, was a singer, dancer, and actress perhaps best known for her supporting role as the nightclub-singing Cha Cha O'Brien on the early-1960s ABC television show, Surfside 6.
Episodes of Surfside 6 often featured Sierra usually singing in English but occasionally in Spanish. The Cha Cha Twist, a song featured during the show's second and final season, was released as a single on Warner Brothers Records but did not enter the Billboard Top 100 chart.
Sierra tragically died in 1963 at the age of 27 from complications following heart surgery performed a day earlier.[1]