Chita Rivera

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About the artist

Chita Rivera (born January 23, 1933) was an American actress, dancer, and singer best known for her roles in musical theatre. She was the first Hispanic woman and the first Latino American[1] to receive a Kennedy Center Honors award (December 2002). She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. Rivera was born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Katherine (Anderson), a government clerk, and Pedro Julio Figueroa del Rivero,[3][4] a clarinetist and saxophonist for the United States Navy Band.

Top songs

  1. All That Jazz
  2. Kiss of the Spider Woman
  3. An English Teacher
  4. I Can't Do It Alone
  5. What Did I Ever See in Him?
  6. When Velma Takes The Stand
  7. America
  8. My Own Best Friend
  9. Class
  10. Spanish Rose
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  1. Where You Are
  2. Normal American Boy
  3. All That Jazz (Digitally Remastered 1996)
  4. Cell Block Tango
  5. Prologue
  6. The Apple Doesn't Fall
  7. All That Jazz (Reprise)
  8. Gimme Love
  9. Chief Cook And Bottle Washer
  10. I Can't Do It Alone (Digitally Remastered 1996)
  11. When Velma Takes The Stand (Digitally Remastered 1996)
  12. Do Miracles
  13. Mean
  14. Anything For Him
  15. Love and Love Alone
  16. A Visit / Morphine Tango
  17. West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast): America
  18. Russian Movie / Good Times
  19. Bye Bye Birdie - Original Broadway Cast: An English Teacher
  20. America (from "West Side Story")
  21. Bye Bye Birdie - Original Broadway Cast: What Did I Ever See in Him
  22. Wallflower
  23. Don't Ah Ma Me
  24. We Can Make It
  25. Folies Bergeres
  26. Winter
  27. Bye Bye Birdie - Original Broadway Cast: A Normal, Healthy American Boy
  28. I Walk Away
  29. America (West Side Story)
  30. West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast): A Boy Like That / I Have a Love
  31. Nowadays
  32. Carousel
  33. West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast): Act II: A Boy Like That - I Have a Love
  34. An English Teacher (Original London Cast Recording)
  35. West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast): Tonight (Quintet and Chorus)
  36. Bye Bye Birdie - Original Broadway Cast: Spanish Rose
  37. A Boy Like That / I Have a Love
  38. Blue Crystal
  39. What Happened to the Old Days?
  40. I Would Never Leave You
  41. I Don't Remember You
  42. Not Enough Magic
  43. An English Teacher (From "Bye Bye Birdie")
  44. Ten Cents a Dance
  45. Where Am I Going
  46. I Hear Music
  47. Mrs. A
  48. A Nightingale Sang in Berkely Square
  49. Spanish Rose (Original London Cast Recording)
  50. Tonight of All Nights
  51. I Won't Dance/Let Me Sing
  52. All That Jazz (From "Chicago")
  53. I Walk Away (feat. Matthew Deming, Tom Nelis & Chris Newcomer)
  54. West Side Story - Original Broadway Cast: America
  55. Normal American Boy (Original London Cast Recording)
  56. One Boy
  57. An English Teacher - Original London Cast Recording
  58. What Did I Ever See In Him (Original London Cast Recording)
  59. Sweet Happy Life/Mas Que Nada
  60. Spanish Rose (From "Bye Bye Birdie")
  61. Not Exactly Paris
  62. How Lucky Can You Get? (From "Funny Lady")
  63. All That Jazz [From Chicago]
  64. Get Me To The Church On Time
  65. All That Jazz - Digitally Remastered 1996
  66. All That Jazz [Digitally Remastered 1996]
  67. I'm Available (Rita's Audition)
  68. West Side Story - Original Broadway Cast: Tonight (Quintet and Chorus)
  69. Spanish Rose - Original London Cast Recording
  70. All That Jazz (Chicago)
  71. Rosie
  72. Old Devil Moon
  73. Coda
  74. Love-Line
  75. How Lucky Can You Get?
  76. More Than You Know
  77. A Boy Like That I Have a Love
  78. Circle of Friends
  79. Normal American Boy - Original London Cast Recording
  80. A Boy Like That
  81. An Occasional Man (From "The Girl Rush")
  82. What Did I Ever See In Him
  83. America (From West Side Story)
  84. A Boy Like That - I Have a Love - From "West Side Story"
  85. This Could Be The Start Of Something (Big) - Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, June 3, 1962
  86. What Did I Ever See In Him - Original London Cast Recording
  87. Bajour: I Can
  88. The Lady's In Love With You (From "Some Like It Hot")
  89. The Surrey With The Fringe On Top
  90. Get Me to the Church on Time (From "My Fair Lady")

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