While Claire dela Fuente, Imelda Papin and Eva Eugenio started out as professional rivals at the peak of their music careers, the three singers, dubbed the “Jukebox Queens” of the ’70s and ’80s, grew closer through the years, and formed a bond that they could only describe as “sisterly.”
But with Claire’s “untimely passing,” the trio “will never be the same again.” “The Jukebox Queens are the three of us. Claire is irreplaceable. And we will never be complete without her,” an emotional Eva told the Inquirer in a phone interview.
Claire, 63, suffered a cardiac arrest in her sleep last Tuesday, March 30, just three days after she was diagnosed with COVID-19. She was hyp…
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