We remember Consuelo Velazquez, whose song "Besame Mucho" became a standard in many languages and styles of music. Velazquez died Saturday in Mexico City at the age of 84. "Besame Mucho" became a big ...

Nothing that songwriter Consuelo Velázquez, who has died aged 88, wrote could ever compete with her very first composition, Bésame Mucho. First recorded in 1941 by Emilio Tuero, it was the romantic ...

MEXICO CITY - Consuelo Velazquez, whose song “Besame Mucho” became a standard in many languages and styles of music, has died. She was 84. Ms. Velazquez died Saturday of complications from a fall she ...

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Any song that has been caressed by Nat “King” Cole, rocked by the Grateful Dead, jazzed by Carmen McRae and thundered by the Red Army Choir clearly shatters stylistic borders. But the hundreds of ...

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