2007-03-01 03:45:16 · 8 answers · asked by stavros k 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
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. After a few years of playing smaller clubs in the L.A. area, Cugat finally got his break when he and his band secured a job at the prestigious Coconut Grove nightclub in 1928. His style of music caught on, and Cugat was instrumental in bringing Latin music to the attention of the US public. In the '30s and '40s he was nicknamed "The Rumba King" because of his popularization of that Latin dance. In Cugat's film appearances he usually played himself, even if the character had a name other than Xavier Cugat, and he and his band appeared in several memorable MGM musicals in the '40s. After suffering a stroke in 1971, Xavier Cugat retired.
Cugat died of heart failure at age 90 in Barcelona in his native Catalonia, Spain.
2007-03-01 03:52:45 · answer #1 · answered by BARROWMAN 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Xavier Cugat was a band leader of the 40's and 50's.
2007-03-01 11:47:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was a musician, popular in the 1930's.
2007-03-01 11:50:26 · answer #3 · answered by Benny Zuko, The All-Knowing cat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was a famous band leader. They played Latin American music. Rhumbas and all that stuff.
2007-03-01 11:51:34 · answer #4 · answered by R.E.M.E. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think he was some kind of big band leader from Cuba. He was married to that blonde bimbo chick "coochie coochie". (Can't remember her name). LMAO !
2007-03-01 11:48:55 · answer #5 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
cuban man married to Charro!
coochie coochie woman!
2007-03-01 11:48:06 · answer #6 · answered by purplejadedragon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the bold guy in x men
2007-03-01 11:48:56 · answer #7 · answered by ibs 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
google !
2007-03-01 11:48:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋