Margarita Sierra | |
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Sierra in 1961.
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Background information | |
Birth name | Maria Margarita Suarez Sierra |
Born |
Madrid, Spain |
January 5, 1936
Died | September 6, 1963 Hollywood, California |
(aged 27)
Occupation(s) | Live performer Dancer Vocalist |
Years active | 1940 – 1963 |
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.
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.