Félix Manuel "Bobby" Rodríguez Capó (January 1, 1922 – December 18, 1989) was a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter.
Initially, he replaced Pedro Ortiz Dávila, "Davilita", in a quartet, the Cuarteto Victoria of Rafael Hernández Marín.
[5] The song, with local circumstances and character name changed, became "El Gitano Antón", a huge hit for Catalan rumba singer Peret in Spain around the mid-1960s.
[6] Bobby Capó wrote the score and songs for the movie MARUJA that was filmed at the end of the 1950s in Puerto Rico.
[citation needed] In 1944, he married Mercedes Ramos,[8] and after their divorce, in 1948 Capó married Irma Nydia Vázquez,[9] his second wife and the first Miss Puerto Rico to participate in the Miss America pageant and the daughter of a wealthy Puerto Rican industrialist.
Bobby Capó died at the age of 67, on December 18, 1989, at his New York City home of a heart attack, several weeks before what would have been his 68th birthday.