Margarita Pracatan (born Margarita Figueroa; 11 June 1931 – 23 June 2020) was a Cuban-born novelty singer, who became well-known in the UK, during the 1990s, when she performed regularly on television on Saturday Night Clive hosted by Clive James.
[1] She found success in the 1990s when she was booked on numerous occasions to appear on Clive James's television show in the UK, adopting the surname "Pracatan".
[2] According to her website, Clive James discovered her on Manhattan public-access television cable TV program in 1994 and invited her to the UK to appear on his show.
"[2] Pracatan toured regularly in the United Kingdom and Australia,[1][3] also appearing as part of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras festival during the mid-1990s.
Pracatan appeared in an episode of The Real Housewives of New York City in 2019, performing a cover version of Luann de Lesseps’s “Money Can’t Buy You Class”.