Ella Laboriel, Pioneer of Mexican Rock, Dies at 77

Published on Honduras Daily · Jul 18, 2026 · Originally reported July 17, 2026 by HCH

Ella Laboriel, a singer and actress of Honduran descent who helped break ground in Mexican rock in the 1960s and worked in music, film, and theater, died of a pulmonary illness in Tampico at 77.

An auto-translated English version isn’t available for HCH, so this opens the original in Spanish. Honduras Daily curates and summarizes; the reporting is theirs.

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