Xavier Cugat
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Girona, Spain (January 1, 1900 – October 27, 1990)
Cugat was born Francisco de Asis Javier Cugat Mingall de Bru y Deulofeo in Girona, Spain. His family immigrated to Cuba when he was five. He trained as a classical violinist and played with the Orchestra of the Teatro Nacional in Havana.
Sometime between 1915 and 1918, Cugat moved to New York, where he played with a band called “The Gigolos” during the tango craze. Later, he went to work for the Los Angeles Times as a cartoonist (Cugat’s caricatures were later nationally syndicated).
In the late 1920s, when sound began to be used in films, Cugat put together a tango band that had some success in early short musical films. By the early 1930s, he began appearing with his group in feature films. Cugat took his band to New York to open the new Waldorf Astoria Hotel and it became the hotel’s resident group.
He shuttled between New York and Los Angeles for most of the next thirty years, alternating hotel and radio dates with movie appearances.
In 1940, he recorded the song Perfidia with singer Miguelito Valdés which became a big hit. Cugat followed trends closely, making records for the conga, the mambo, the cha-cha-cha, and the twist when each were in fashion.
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liquidnature
Born on January 1, 1900.. pretty awesome
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shinjukuXtasy
let's vote this up, that Hirschfeldesque portrait is uncanny
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herbeard
El Paul Whiteman de la música latinoamericana!
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markusromano
incredible. love this stuff
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andrea605
Been listening to Xavier since a child - phenomenal!
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zeromero
Amazing
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nathanaelkan
Rumba Rumbero, i wonder what would it be if he collaborate with Yma Sumac. *_*
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Jimcorp
fucking awesome
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albert0balsalm
<3
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Kisoku7
Siboney instrumental.........A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!!! *___* woah i'm in the Olimpo of listeners!!!!YAY!!!!sommo giubilo!!!^___^
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mistercreative
oh yessss
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Mokami
always
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Bulgey10
Look at him!
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TripleSol
gotta love that chihuahua
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Charade
one cool guy
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xam123
xavier is king
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Augusto_Palma
No, he did not wrote Perfidia, the song is originally a mexican bolero composed and written by Alberto Dominguez Borras that has been played/sung by people as diverse as Artie Shaw, Placido Domingo and others, it's also often versioned in jazz and pop.
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Ramez05
so did he write peridia originally, cuz i see alot of other bands play that song.
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avphibes
Ay Carumba! Mambo, baby!
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Queen_of_Moss
Definitely Perfidia!
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