Chivirico davila biography of donald

For the funeral of Chivirico Dávila, which took place in the cemetery Villa Palmeras, in Santurce, steps away from the mausoleums of Rafael Cortijo and Ismael Rivera, no government official or representative from the Puerto Rican music industry came to pay their condolences.

Removed from the salsa scene in the Bronx, New York, we interviewed Chivirico for the newspaper El Nuevo Día just five months before his death on October 5, 1994.

Problems and family intrigue led him to New York City, where he made a living, according to what he told us, working in a factory.

We asked him if, being a legend of our Afro-Antillean music, he had considered returning to the artistic arena and just days afterwards, he informed us that, after the publication of the article, they had called him from Colombia to appear in a series of performances.

His dream was to return to Puerto Rico to sing, instead he returned in a sealed coffin because a sudden heart attack claimed his life at