The Mavericks’ lead singer and co-founder Raul Malo died Tuesday, the band announced. Malo had been fighting stage 4 colon cancer, having announced his diagnosis last year. In September, he said he was also battling leptomeningeal disease, a rare condition in which cancer spreads to the brain and spinal cord. “Over a career of more than three decades entertaining millions around the globe, his towering creative contributions and unrivaled, generational talent created the kind of multicultural American music reaching far beyond America itself,” the band said in a statement. The Mavericks blended rock and country music and took influence from Latin-American tunes. Malo, a Miami native and the son of Cuban immigrants, had been outspoken against the immigration practices of the Trump administr

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