María del Rosario Goico Rodríguez, (born on May 23, 1949 in Santa Lucía), better known in show business as simply Charytín Goyco or Charytín, is a Dominican singer, comedian, television hostess and actress. Born 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. She returned to the Dominican Republic after nearly ten years of living abroad, when her parents reconciled.