RIP Raul Malo of The Mavericks There goes my heart
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"Raul Malo, the big-voiced singer and principal songwriter for the Mavericks, a Grammy Award-winning band whose Latin-inflected sound helped broaden the boundaries of country music in the 1990s, died on Monday. He was 60.
His publicist, Michelle Steele, said that the cause was cancer. She did not say where he died. Mr. Malo announced in June that he had Stage 4 colon cancer. Several months later, he said he learned that he also had leptomeningeal disease, a condition in which cancer cells attack membranes around the brain and spinal cord.
Best known for Top 20 country hits like “There Goes My Heart” and “O What a Thrill,” the quartet that eventually became the Mavericks first came together in Miami in the late 1980s as a bar band called the Basics. More rock than country, the group featured Robert Reynolds on lead vocals and guitar, Mr. Malo on background vocals and bass, Paul Deakin on the drums and Ben Peeler on lead guitar.
It was not until 1989, after Mr. Malo and Mr. Reynolds switched roles, that Mr. Malo’s sonorous, vibrato-rich baritone came to the fore and helped create the Mavericks’ trademark blend of country, rock ’n’ roll and Latin music.".... (more)
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