Vale: Margarita Pracatan

Inimitable Cuban performer Margarita Pracatan, who made outrageous appearances on The Clive James Show has died, aged 89.

Her social media said she had “left for the ultimate Happy Hours in the sky”.

Pracatan’s flamboyant fashions, thick accent and often wayward grasp on her musical material made her a popular fixture on 1990s television.

“Margarita gives everything she’s got, every time,” said James himself. “If she forgets the words, she sings something else. She never stops.

“When people ask me if it’s all an act, I give them the true answer: no it isn’t. She’s really like that. Somebody had to be, and fate chose her.”

Source: BBC