Yolanda Vadiz

Vadiz's mother and Cosme divorced a year after the tragedy happened. In 1988, Cosme remarried, and he and his new wife had a daughter, whom they named Yolanda, to honor Vadiz's memory.

Vadiz released her only album, Amor en Mil Idiomas (Love in a Thousand Languages), in 1986, produced by her mother, in Spanish, English and Italian. The song for which the album was named became an instant hit, not only on Puerto Rico's gospel radio stations, but also on mainstream music stations, because of its pop music rhythm.

Vadiz married Italian lawyer Vittoriano Lucci in 1986, and moved to Rome. Upon her return to Italy, after having promoted her new released record in Puerto Rico, the couple suffered carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a defective gas heater in their apartment. Yolanda had turned on the gas heater after closing all windows in the apartment. Her husband died immediately in his sleep. Vadiz fell into a three-week-long coma and was taken to a hospital in Rome. Her father and mother flew in to be by her side. The news of her critical state and her husband's death crossed Puerto Rico immediately, and all the news media transmitted bulletins of her health condition to the people of Puerto Rico.

Yolanda Vadiz (1959–1987) was a Puerto Rican soprano. She got her Bachelor of Arts degree in Puerto Rico and her master's degree in Manhattan School of Music in New York. While in New York, she sang the leading role in the zarzuela "Doña Francisquita" for the Repertorio Español theater company housed at the Gramercy Arts Theater, Off-Broadway. As winner of the Rome Festival in Italy, she performed the role of Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro. While in Italy, she was under contract to RAI Television Network, and sang in front of kings and high dignitaries from different countries.