Charytín Goyco, better known in the show business plainly as Charytín, is a Dominican singer, television hostess and actress.
Background
Born in Santa Lucía, El Seibo, to a Dominican father (of Russian, Serbian, Montenegrin, French and Spanish ancestry), and a Spaniard mother (her mother was an attorney from Asturias, Spain who found herself exiled during the regime of Francisco Franco), at an early age, her mother took her and her sister to Spain after breaking up with her father.
Career
During the 1970s, she began a weekly television show on WAPA-television, which aired every Sunday night until 1985. Charytín became an international superstar with her song Mosquita Muerta, named after a character she played on a comedy section of her show, becoming a chart topper in places like Mexico, Venezuela, and Argentina. In 1983, Charytín made a movie in Spanish named Prohibido Amar en Nueva York with Mexican actor Julio Alemán.
(Forbidden Love in New York).
Two of the songs on that movie"s soundtrack, Tu Vida Es Un Suspenso Hasta El Final & Para Llegar, became another chart toppers for Charytín. In 1986, she and Iris Chacón acted together, alongside Dominican-Mexican actor Andrés García and Puerto Rican best selling singer, Yolandita Monge, on a soap opera named Escandalo.
This telenovela did not enjoy much success and was cut by half by the producers. In 1988, she moved to Miami with Elin and Shalim, and in late 1989, she became pregnant again, giving birth in 1990 to twins, a boy (Alexander) and a girl (Sharinna).
During the early 1990s, she dedicated herself to raise her twins, taking them along on the few tours she did and her several trips to Puerto Rico.
Late in the 1990s, she returned to television, hosting a show for a television shopping network. In 2002 she began hosting a celebrity gossip show, Escándalo television along Marisa del Portillo, Felipe Viel and Lilia Luciano for TeleFutura. She used to host a daily entertainment news show for Univisión Sister Station TeleFutura.
Today she is a new television show "CHARYTÍNorth" on Mega television from Monday to Friday.