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Puerto Rican salsa singer Ubaldo Rodríguez Santos, 64 years old and better known as Lalo Rodríguez, was found dead early this Wednesday morning in his hometown, Carolina.
The local police found the body of the artist in a residential building with no signs of violence, although the cause of death is still unknown.
The artist achieved international fame in the eighties as an interpreter of the song
Come, devour me again.
A phone call alerted to the discovery of a dead person in the Sabana Abajo neighborhood of Carolina.
Upon arrival, the paramedical team recognized the singer and confirmed the death.
The artist's representative, Francisco Pérez, has admitted that the singer had health problems, although he has not specified which ones.
“Last night we were sharing and it was quiet;
Today he had called me twice and I told him that I was coming here to look for him ”, he explained in statements to Europa Press.
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With a musical career of more than 45 years, one of Lalo Rodríguez's best-known songs was
Come, devour me again
, although songs like
But you arrived
,
Nothing about you
,
Enchanted sadness
,
Yes, I lied
to you or
You don't know how to love
him .
became one of the best known salsa singers.
At the age of nine he sang on radio and television and gave his first concerts at patron saint festivities, but it was when he turned 12 and joined the Tempo Moderno orchestra that his artistic career broke out.
Her debut album achieved a milestone: it was the first salsa album to win an Anglo-Saxon Grammy Award.
The title was
The Sun of the Latin Music
and she recorded it
along with pianist Eddie Palmieri, who nicknamed him Lalo.
His solo career began in 1980 with the album
Simply... Lalo
and he has 11 albums.
The work
Tommy Olivencia Introducing Lalo Rodríguez and Simón Pérez
led him to win his second Grammy and become the first Latino singer with two gramophones.
In 1984 he decided to stop singing and returned to music four years later with the album
A new awakening
.
That album included her most successful single:
Come, devour me again,
written by the Dominican Palmer Hernández.
The theme reached the top of the lists of most listened to songs in Panama, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and Spain, where it received a platinum record and a gold record for the sale of more than 200,000 copies
A new awakening.
Currently, the single is close to 150 million cumulative listeners on Spotify.