Benny Mardones, who had his hit single, "Into The Night" reach the US pop charts twice during his career, has passed away today at the age of seventy-three. The singer had been struggling with Parkinson's disease since 2000 and died from complications.
He was born Ruben Armand Mardones in Cleveland, Ohio. After his father, Ruben Sr. left the family to return home to Santiago, Chile when he was an infant, they moved on to Maryland. Mardones joined the Navy after high school and served during the Vietnam War. He ended up in New York City after he was discharged and decided to begin a career in music. Mardones wrote songs with Alan Miles and Bobby Tepper (who would co-write "Into The Night" with him) before getting signed to Private Stock Records as a singer and releasing his debut album, "Thank God for Girls" in 1978.
It would be Mardones' follow-up album, "Never Run, Never Hide" that would first feature his breakout hit, "Into The Night" reaching number eleven on the pop charts in 1980. Mardones fell in to serve drug addiction, causing him to be dropped from his record label. After the birth of his son, Michael in 1985, Mardones decided to seek help and got sober.
Mardones got back in the recording studio and released a self-titled album in 1989 which featured a new version of his classic single that was released and charted again to reach number twenty on the US pop chart. While he would never repeat this success, Mardones released four more studio albums with his last in 2015 with his band, The Hurricanes.
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