Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Trini Lopez, US singer and star of The Dirty Dozen, dies aged 83 from Covid-19



https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/aug/12/trini-lopez-covid-19-frank-sinatra-dirty-dozen

 

 

Mexican-American singer and actor Trini Lopez has died aged 83, after contracting Covid-19, at hospital in Rancho Mirage, California.

As well as starring in the 1967 second world war war classic The Dirty Dozen as one of the eponymous gang, Lopez scored a transatlantic hit with If I Had a Hammer and designed a pair of sought-after guitar models for Gibson.

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Lopez had further US hits with Kansas City and Lemon Tree, while I’m Comin’ Home Cindy was a minor UK hit in 1966.

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