Xavier Cugat

Xavier Cugat ( Girona ( Catalonia ), 1 January 1900 - Barcelona , 27 October 1990 ) was an American bandleader of Catalan origin, who spent his childhood in Havana , Cuba . He was a skilled violinist and arranger, he was a key figure in the spread of Latin music in the US He was also a cartoonist and a successful businessman. In New York he formed - with his band members - the resident orchestra of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, both before and after the Second World War .



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[verbergen]  *1 Life and career  ==Life and career [  edit ] == Cugat was in Spain born Francesc d'Asis Xavier Cugat Mingall the Bru i Deulofeu. His family emigrated to Cuba when Xavier was five. He was trained as a classical violinist and played in the orchestra of the Teatro Nacional in Havana . On July 6, 1915 Cugat and his family arrived as immigrants in New York . They were passengers aboard the SS Havana.As a teenager, he learned to play the violin at the Teatro Nacional in Havana and later he accompanied Enrico Caruso in one of his tours . At the beginning of his show business career, during the tango craze, he played in a band called The Gigolos. ===Marriages [  edit ] === Cugat was married four times. His first wife was Carmen Castillo (1929-1944), his second Lorraine Allen (1947-52), his third wife, the singer Abbe Lane (1952-64) and his fourth Spanish guitarist and comedian Charo (1966-78). His last marriage was first signed in Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip . ===Radio and film [  edit ] === At the end of the twenties, when the era of silent film ended and the movie began with sound, he put together a tango band that had some success in short musical films. In the beginning of the thirties he appeared in films with its major band. In 1931 he went with his band to New York for the opening of the Waldorf-Astoria and eventually replaced Jack Denny as leader of the house band. Sixteen years had Cugat orchestra leader at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. He shuttled the next 30 years between New York and Los Angeles hotel and radio performances interspersed with film appearances include You Were Never Lovelier (1942) Bathing Beauty (1944), Week-End at the Waldorf (1945) and Neptune's Daughter (1949). ===Recordings <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  Edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">His recording in 1940 of Perfidia with singer Miguelito Valdés became a big hit. Cugat followed the new trends closely. He made ​​recordings for the Chachacha, the conga , the mambo and the twist at the time that were in fashion. Several songs he recorded, including "Perfidia", were used in the Wong Kar-Waifilms Days of Being Wild and 2046. A big hit was "Brazil", the seventeenth place of the 1943 Billboard Hot 100 reached.
 * 1.1 Marriages
 * 1.2 Radio and film
 * 1.3 Recordings
 * 2 Dead
 * 3 External links

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Other well-known titles include:

==Death <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Cugat died at the age of 90 in Barcelona from heart failure and was buried in his hometown of Girona.
 * Bahía
 * Siboney
 * Malagueña
 * Andalusia (The Breeze and I)
 * Tequila
 * El Cumbachero