Years active 1940 – 1963 Name Margarita Sierra | Role Singer | |
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Birth name Maria Margarita Suarez Sierra Born January 5, 1936Madrid, Spain ( 1936-01-05 ) Occupation(s) Live performerDancerVocalist Died September 6, 1963, Hollywood, California, United States Albums The Sparkling Senorita From Spain Similar People Troy Donahue, Encarnita Polo, Bing Crosby, Fred MacMurray, Vainica Doble | ||
Margarita Sierra - Cha Cha Twist
Maria Margarita Suarez Sierra (January 5, 1936 – September 6, 1963), better known as Margarita Sierra, 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/Warner Brothers television series, Surfside 6, with Troy Donahue, Van Williams, Lee Patterson, and Diane McBain.
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Episodes of Surfside 6 often featured Sierra singing, usually 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 died in Hollywood, California, in 1963 at the age of twenty-seven from complications following heart surgery performed a day earlier. She is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.