Last Days
The diabetes worsened and finished leaving her blind. Accentuating her cardiac complications were an uninterrupted routine of work and a raging alcoholism that came from her Bohemian surroundings. There are some who even say that, in the last years of her life, Lucha Reyes fell in to a self-destruction vortex that only could have a sad end. Reyes may have known death was imminent.
Followed by a public who idolized her in life, and wanting to close its existence with a finishing touch, Lucha Reyes asked composer Pedro Pacheco to write "Mi Última Canción" ("My Last Song") one of her more touching and collected recordings, and on October 30, 1973, one day before her death, she sang "My Last Song" live in a well-known local radio broadcasting station with sincere tears in her eyes. On the following day, the October 31, 1973, Lucha Reyes, "La Morena de Oro del Perú" (Peru's Black Woman of Gold) died. She is buried in the "Cemetery the Angel" in Lima.
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