Afro-Peruvian singer Susana Baca hospitalized in Lima
Baca, a three-time Latin Grammy Award winner, is 79 years old
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Baca, a three-time Latin Grammy Award winner, is 79 years old
Award-winning Afro-Peruvian singer and former culture minister Susana Baca has been admitted to intensive care in a hospital in Lima, her family said Friday."Susanita is very delicate, she is in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in the Edgardo Rebagliati Hospital, where the medical team is doing its best for her recovery," Baca's husband Ricardo Pereira said in a statement, without specifying the nature of her ailment.
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