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Xavier Cugat (Catalan: [ʃəβiˈe kuˈɣat]; 1 January 1900 – 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.
As a teenage violin prodigy, under the name Francis Cugat, he toured in concert with Enrico Caruso. In the mid-1960s, he gained notoriety and increased public exposure when he married his fifth, and final wife, a young Spanish entertainer known as Charo (aka "The Cuchi-Cuchi Girl") who was about 40 years his junior (her actual age is still a ...
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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.
Actor. Music Department. Composer. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. 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.
Xavier Cugat, the popular Spanish-born bandleader who introduced many Latin American rhythms to North American audiences, died of heart failure yesterday at the Quiron Clinic in Barcelona, Spain, his doctors said in a statement issued there.
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.
