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Xavier Cugat ( Catalan: [ʃəβiˈe kuˈɣat]; 1 January 1900 [1] – 27 October 1990) was a Spanish musician and bandleader who spent his formative years in Havana, Cuba. A trained violinist and arranger, he was a leading figure in the spread of Latin music.
Xavier Cugat was a bandleader who introduced Latin American dance music to wide audiences in the United States. Cugat proved a violin prodigy while growing up in Havana, Cuba, earned enough money to finance his family’s move to Brooklyn, N.Y., and accompanied tenor Enrico Caruso on a world tour at.
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Mini Bio. Born in Spain, Xavier Cugat's family moved to Havana, Cuba, when he was three. Always musically inclined, he packed up and moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as a cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times newspaper during the day and labored to put together a band at night.
- January 1, 1900
- October 27, 1990
Oct 27, 1990 · Xavier Cugat i Mingall. He was a Catalan-American musician and native of Catalonia who spent his formative years in Havana, Cuba. A trained violinist and arranger, he was a leading figure in the spread of Latin music in United States popular music.
Oct 28, 1990 · The Spanish-born bandleader who popularized the rumba in North America died of heart failure in Barcelona at age 90. He was a musical child prodigy, a classical violinist, a radio soloist, a movie star and a discoverer of talent.
Francisco de Asís Javier Cugat Mingall de Bru y Deulofeu, conocido como Xavier Cugat i Mingall o simplemente Xavier Cugat ( Gerona, 1 de enero de 1900- Barcelona, 27 de octubre de 1990) fue un músico y dibujante español, uno de los principales difusores de la música de Ernesto Lecuona, de la música afrocubana e iberoamericana. Biografía.
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Oct 28, 1990 · Bandleader Xavier Cugat, who began playing in a symphony orchestra at the age of 10 and went on to become known as the “Rumba King” of the 1930s and ‘40s, died Saturday in Spain. He was 90.
