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| birth_place = [[Mayagüez, Puerto Rico|Mayagüez]], [[Puerto Rico]]
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'''Armando Hipólito Avellanet González''', nicknamed '''"Chucho"''', is a Puerto Rican singer and comedic actor of [[Spain|Spanish]]-Catalan descent. Avellanet was involved with the [[Nueva ola]] movement in the 1960s.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-12-28 |title=The Charm of Chucho El encanto de Chucho – Manhattan Times News |url=https://www.manhattantimesnews.com/the-charm-of-chucho-el-encanto-de-chucho/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220526070121/https://www.manhattantimesnews.com/the-charm-of-chucho-el-encanto-de-chucho/ |archive-date=2022-05-26 |access-date=2023-04-05 |website=Manhattan Times}}</ref>
Choky Avellanet (brother)
'''Armando Hipólito Avellanet González''' (born August 13, 1941 in [[Mayagüez, Puerto Rico|Mayagüez]]), nicknamed '''"Chucho"''' (from the [[Basque language|Basque]] ''Txutxo''), is a [[Spain|Spanish]]-[[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]] singer and comedic actor.


==Origin==
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* [[List of Puerto Ricans]]
Avellanet was born in [[Mayagüez, Puerto Rico|Mayagüez]]. Avellanet is of [[Spanish people|Spanish]], [[Catalan people|Catalan]], and [[Italian people|Italian]] descent, his grandfather being an Italian immigrant by the name of Pietro Nuccio.


==Career==
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Before becoming famous, he had been performing across Puerto Rico's western coast with various musical trios, particularly with the ''[[Trio Los Duendes]]''. He was regarded as having a powerful voice, but was too shy to occupy a solo spot in any of the groups he performed with. In fact, Avellanet claimed, he felt better suited to performing comedy, and he did comic sketches at a few high school functions. After he returned from a stint with the [[Army National Guard]] in [[North Carolina]] he was discovered by [[Cuba]]n-born television promoter [[Gaspar Pumarejo]], who immediately introduced him to the Puerto Rico television audience.

His career formally started during the week of 23–28 May 1961, when he was featured daily on Pumarejo's show. His first formal live performance was opening for [[Myrta Silva]] at a Puerto Rican music review regularly staged at the Tropicoro Room of El San Juan Hotel in [[Carolina, Puerto Rico]] now the Wyndham El San Juan Hotel & Casino. He took voice lessons from Puerto Rican soprano Rina de Toledo.

Avellanet achieved teen-idol status in [[Puerto Rico]] during the 1960s, as a member of the ''[[Nueva Ola]]'' pop music movement. Helped by [[Alfred D. Herger]], he was a member of a group of teen sensations that included [[Lissette Alvarez]] (to whom Avellanet got married), [[Lucecita Benítez]], [[Yolandita Monge]], [[Ednita Nazario]] and [[Charlie Robles]], among others. Such was his popularity that he was booked to do three shows on New Year's Eve 1961 and New Year's Day 1962. With ''La Nueva Ola'', he recorded his first album, titled ''Fugitiva.'' His first hit was a Spanish version of [[Marty Robbins]]' ''[[Devil Woman (Marty Robbins song)|Devil Woman]]'' loosely translated by Herger under the title ''Magia Blanca'' (''White Magic''). He later had his first major international hit with another song adapted to Spanish, a version of pop standard ''[[I Can't Stop Loving You]]'' titled ''Jamás te olvidaré'' (''I Will Never Forget You'').

Avellanet later performed with a group of singers named ''La Juventud Canta''. Although not a conventional music group, ''La Juventud Canta'' toured all over Latin America, and Avellanet extended his teen-idol status to other countries such as Mexico, [[Argentina]] and [[Venezuela]], where Avellanet enjoyed a solid teen girl fan base.

===Crossover===
Avellanet would soon join the [[United Artists]] record label, making what would be his only attempt at a cross-over into the American pop genre, with the album ''In a Little Spanish Town''. His fourteen other records under that label were recorded in Spanish. In 1965, under United Artist, he recorded the album titled Chucho Avellanet Baladas Spanish Sounds in Country Music produced by [[LeRoy Holmes]]. This album featured a choice sampling of the better tunes that had emerged from the world of country and Western music at the time including It Makes No Difference Now (No Me Importa) by Jimmy Davis, and Sinceridad ("Are you Sincere?") by [https://countrymusichalloffame.org/OralHistoryCollection/OralHistoryDetail/wayne-walker Wayne Walker]/[[RCA Studio B|Gil Veda]].

1972 was a very eventful year for Avellanet, who represented [[Puerto Rico in the OTI Festival|his country]] finishing in fourth place at [[OTI Festvial 1972|that year's]] [[Festival OTI]] in [[Spain]]. Then, Avellanet made history by becoming the first [[Hispanic]] to perform at the [[Miss Universe]] contest, held that year in the Puerto Rican beach town of [[Dorado, Puerto Rico|Dorado]].

===Acting career===
Chucho Avellanet diversified, and by the 1980s, he was as known for his acting as he was for his singing. Having signed up with ''[[WKAQ-TV|Canal 2]]'', he was able to explore his ability both in the show hosting and acting fields when he hosted, alongside Lissette Alvarez, the popular ''El Show de Chucho y Lissette''. He also hosted ''Senoras y Senores'' and ''Con Chucho Avellanet'' before finally settling on ''El Show de Chucho''. Avellanet also performed comedy on ''El Show de Chucho'', participating in the show's comedy segment. In one particularly memorable comic chapter, he screamed, ''May the roof fall on us if I'm lying!'' and the roof then "crashed down" on him and his guests. He also participated, with Lissette, in a famous [[Schaefer Beer]] commercial, where he sang the jingle ''Cerveza Schaefer es la mejor cuando se toma mas de una'' (''Schaefer is the one beer to have when you're having more than one''). During the filming of the commercial, the boat they were on was rocked by a submarine of the [[United States Navy]] passing below it; the experience made a lasting impression on him, which years later led him to support the cause of the people of [[Vieques]] in their demands to have the Navy vacate their bombing range on Vieques and [[Culebra, Puerto Rico|Culebra]].

One of Avellanet's biggest international hits during the decade of the '80s came in his song ''Sera varon, sera mujer?'' (''Will It Be a Boy, Will It Be a Girl?''), where he explored the questions couples expecting a baby might ask themselves. This song coincided with his wife's pregnancy, and in his case, his baby turned out to be a boy. He was by then married to his second wife, Venezuelan actress [[Marisela Berti]], whom he later also divorced.

In 1988, Avellanet came back to the headlines, but not precisely because of his own, personal success: His nephew [[Robert Avellanet|Roberto Alejandro Avellanet Negrón]] was chosen as the newest member of ''[[Menudo (band)|Menudo]]''. Roberto followed in his uncle's footsteps, becoming a major teen-idol in Puerto Rico within months of his joining the teenaged boy band.

On stage in San Juan during the 1980s, Avellanet appeared as "El Lince" in the musical "La Verdadera Historia de Pedro Navaja", a Caribbean-set adaptation of "[[The Beggar's Opera]]", and "Father Silvestre" in the Puerto Rican production of "El Diluvio que Viene" (the Spanish-version of the Italian musical [["Aggiungi un posto a tavola"]]). He returned to the theater in Puerto Rico in 2014, in a Spanish-language production of "[[Shear Madness]]" ("Con los Pelos de Punta")

In 1989 he starred in "Papi", a prime-time sitcom on "[[WAPA-TV]]", Puerto Rico's Channel 4, in which he played the superintendent of a condominium with eccentric residents. He sang the show's intro theme song called "Yo Soy Como Soy" ("That's Who I am"). He returned to sitcoms in 2012 with "Papi en Casa ("Dad at Home"), on "[[WLII-TV]]", Channel 11, Puerto Rico's "[[Univision]]" affiliate, in which he played a grandfather.

In 1994, Avellanet, Lucecita Benítez and Lissette Alvarez rejoined forces for a one-night-only concert.

In 2010, Avellanet performed at the opening and closing ceremonies of the [[2010 Central American and Caribbean Games]], held in Mayagüez. Later in the year he publicly announced that he was undergoing [[chemotherapy]] for treating [[Non-Hodgkins lymphoma]]. Stating that his prognosis is good, he nevertheless asked for privacy while undergoing treatment.


== External links ==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061106055600/http://www.musicaboricua.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?LNG=en-US&Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=ChuchoAvellanet Online Discography]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061106055600/http://www.musicaboricua.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?LNG=en-US&Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=ChuchoAvellanet Online Discography]
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Latest revision as of 05:18, 1 November 2024

Chucho Avellanet
Born (1941-08-13) August 13, 1941 (age 83)
Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
Occupation(s)Singer, actor

Armando Hipólito Avellanet González, nicknamed "Chucho", is a Puerto Rican singer and comedic actor of Spanish-Catalan descent. Avellanet was involved with the Nueva ola movement in the 1960s.[1]

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  1. ^ "The Charm of Chucho El encanto de Chucho – Manhattan Times News". Manhattan Times. 2016-12-28. Archived from the original on 2022-05-26. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
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