The Cha-Cha-Cha
"The Cha-Cha-Cha" is a song released in 1962 by Bobby Rydell.
The song spent 11 weeks on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 10 on November 17, 1962, while reaching No. 1 in Hong Kong, No. 2 in Australia, and No. 11 on Canada's CHUM Hit Parade.
The song tells of the singer's desire to have his "baby" dance the Cha-Cha-Cha, while bemoaning the dance trends of the day (directly referencing the Twist, Wah-Watusi, Hully-Gully, Locomotion and Mashed Potatoes).
Alfredo Casero
Alfredo Casero( born November 12, 1962 in Vicente López, Buenos Aires Province) is an Argentine musician, actor and comedian.
Casero began studying acting with Norman Briski in 1987.
Soon after he started working in the underground humour scene of Buenos Aires.
In 1992 he created, along with other humorists, the delirious comic show" De la cabeza Out of our minds"), which later continued as" Cha Cha Cha" in 1995.
In parallel with the TV show he started working in his musical project, and also in a radio show.
The cancellation of" Cha Cha Cha" in 1997 marks the end of an era of famous characters, such as" Manhattan Ruiz, Minister of Postal EconomyDelicatessen Todo x 2 pesos" and" Peter Capusotto y sus videos" were shows that took much of the former" Cha Cha Cha" and" De la Cabeza", including many actors.
He became better known outside of his country in 2002 when he recorded a Japanese song," Shima Uta", entirely in Japanese.
It was the first single from his album," Casaerius".
The song became a huge hit in Argentina, where it was chosen as the anthem for the national football team to represent the country at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, in South Korea and Japan.
In 2004 Casero played the character' Roque Rizzutti' in the Argentinian soap Locas de amor.
He was featured, along with Japanese rock band" The Boom"( authors of" Shima Uta") and Japanese- Argentine folk singer Claudia Oshiro on the Japanese New Year's Eve television show," Kōhaku Uta Gassen", in its 53rd edition( New Year's Eve, December 2002).
Since then he's been devoted to the" Casero Experimendo", an experiment of blogging/ humour and theater presentations, all made around improvisation.
José Curbelo
José Curbelo( February 18, 1917, Havana- September 21, 2012, Miami) was a Cuban- born American pianist and manager.
Curbelo was a key figure in Latin jazz in New York City in the 1940s and helped to popularize Mambo and the cha cha dance in the 1950s.
Both of Curbelo's parents were born in Cuba, but his father had studied classical violin in the United States before returning to play with the Havana Philharmonic.
He studied under Pedro Menendez as a child and graduated from the Molinas Conservatory at age 15.
In the 1930s he played with Cuban orchestras and formed the Orquesta Havana Riverside before moving to New York in 1939.
There he played in the ensembles of Xavier Cugat, Juancito Sanabria, and José Morand early in the 1940s, and in 1942 founded his own ensemble.
Among the musicians who played in Curbelo's band were Candido, Tito Puente, and Tito Rodriguez; the group split time between New York and Miami, and played in some of both cities' top nightclubs and ballrooms.
Starting in 1953, Curbelo worked with a sextet which included Al Cohn and Jack Hitchcock; this group was arranged by Cohn himself and Puente as well as Rene Hernandez and Chico O'Farrill.
Curbelo's band recorded several albums in the cha-cha style for Morand's Fiesta Records in the 1950s.
Curbelo wrote unforgettable songs in this period(" La La laLa familiaLa Runidera"( 1946)," Sun Sun babae"( 1952)," Mambo y cha cha cha"); these songs have since been sung by Ray Barreto and Oscar de Leon.
Curbelo disbanded the group in 1959 and took up managing, founding an agency for Latin musicians called Alpha Artists.
Throughout the 1960s, Curbelo managed most of the major Latin bands in New York and was successful in negotiating favorably with promoters on behalf of his artists.
Curbelo invested in real estate later in life and moved to Miami in the 1980s, where he continued booking artists for festivals.
He died in 2012 after spending the last few months of his life at a hospice in Aventura, Florida.
Michelino
Michelino, stage name of Michele Gramazio( 1937 – 27 December 2010) was an Italian singer.
Michele Gramazio stage named" Michelino" was born in Lucera, Italy in 1937 but in the 1940s Gramazio moved to Rome.
He was amongst the first Italian artists to adopt Latin American music styles, he was considered the Italian father of the cha-cha-cha, mainly thanks to the success of the song" Cha cha cha della segretaria", a cover of Pepe Luis'" Cha cha cha de las segretarias", which ranked at the sixth place on the Italian hit parade.
Michelino was also well known for the song" La pachanga", which charted# 9 on the hit parade.
La engañadora
" La engañadora"( translated in the US as" The Gay Deceiver" or simply" The Deceiver") is a song written by violinist Enrique Jorrín and first recorded by Orquesta América in March 1953.
Shortly after its release it became Panart's biggest- selling single.
It is widely considered the first cha-cha-cha and one of the most influential Cuban songs.
Hin Channiroth
Hin Channiroth( born April 15, 1990) is a Cambodian MC and actress.
She is a MC at Bayon TV for a program called Cha Cha Cha.
In addition, Channiroth is also a model for some magazines.
Channiroth began her entertainment career when she was only seventeen.
Monchito
Raymond Muñoz Rodriguez, known as Monchito, is a Latin music bandleader and percussionist popular during the New York mambo and cha cha cha boom of the 1950s.
Monchito played bongo for Tito Puente, but in 1959 moved to Tito Rodriguez' band to be able to play timbal.
Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha
"Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha" (originally released as "Everybody Likes to Cha Cha Cha") is a song by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, released in January 1959.
The song was one of Cooke's biggest successes on "Billboard" Hot R&B Sides chart, peaking at number two; the song also charted at number 31 on the "Billboard" Hot 100.
The song references the cha-cha-cha, a dance of Cuban origin that became popular in the United States in the late 1950s.
Indépendance Cha Cha
" Indépendance Cha Cha"( French;" Independence cha cha") was a song performed by Joseph Kabasele( best known by his stage name" Le Grand Kallé") from the group" L'African Jazz" in the popular African Rumba style.
The song has been described as" Kabasele's most memorable song" and one of the first Pan-African hits.
The song was composed and first performed in 1960, the so- called Year of Africa, to celebrate the imminent independence of the Belgian Congo( the modern- day Democratic Republic of the Congo).
The song achieved considerable successes and remains the most internationally best- known examples of Congolese Rumba.
Bobby Rydell
Bobby Rydell (born Robert Louis Ridarelli; April 26, 1942) is an American singer, mainly of rock and roll music.
In the early 1960s, he was considered a teen idol.
His most well known songs include "Wild One" and "Volare" (cover), and he appeared in the movie "Bye Bye Birdie" in 1963.

Question: What nationality is the performer of song The Cha-Cha-Cha?
Answer: American