Jose Curbelo, cha-cha-cha promoter, dies at 95
Jose Curbelo, the Latin jazz bandleader, agent and promoter who helped popularize the cha-cha-cha in the United States and made Tito Puente a star, died Friday of heart failure in Aventura, Fla. He was 95.
Mexican journalist Miguel Angel Granados Chapa died from cancer over the weekend, just two days after publishing a public farewell to his readers.