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Toña “La Negra”

b. María Antonia del Carmen Peregrino, 1912, Veracruz, Mexico, d. November 1982, Mexico Town, Mexico. Toña ‘La Negra’ would be to the bolero what Billie Vacation would be to the jazz ballad. Just like the mambo, danzón, as well as other melody types, the bolero started in Cuba. The Mexico …

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