These Amazing Vegas Acts Are Worth Every Penny

Charo

Charo’s catchphrase was the cloyingly said in a sing-song voice, “cuchi-cuchi.” Charo was a classical Flamenco guitarist, but her husband and manager, Xavier Cugat, wanted to promote her as a sex-bomb with comedy chops, so that is what Charo’s act was: she sang, she played, she spoke purposefully over the top broken English and entertained generations of Vegas audiences.

In the early 1970s she was the headlining act in the Sahara’s Congo Room. She performed regularly on the Strip at venues like Caesars Palace’s Circus Maximus and Tropicana’s Tiffany Theatre. Many will remember her regular ( and very wiggly!) appearances on The Love Boat in the 1980’s.