SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico ? Ruth Fernandez, a pioneering Puerto Rican female singer who broke racial barriers and later was elected senator, has died. She was 92.
Producer Vicky Hernandez tells reporters that Fernandez died late Monday of septic shock and pneumonia.
Hundreds of people gathered Tuesday to mourn the woman known as the "soul of Puerto Rican song."
Puerto Rico's National Foundation for Popular Culture says she was the first woman to be a singer for a Puerto Rican orchestra and the first popular music interpreter booked by New York's Metropolitan Opera House.
Fernandez served in the U.S. territory's Senate from 1973 to 1980.
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