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Xavier Cugat
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Xavier Cugat, born Francesc d'Assís Xavier Cugat Mingall de Bru i Deulofeu on 1 January 1900 in Girona, was a composer, conductor, singer, and bandleader also known by the pseudonyms Cugui and Cugie. He held citizenship of Spain, Cuba, and the United States, played violin and sang, and worked within pop music and the music of Latin America. He began his career in 1912 and recorded for Columbia Records and RCA Records.
Cugat was married to Rita Montaner, Abbe Lane, and Charo. He received the Saint George's Cross and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His written works include Yo Cugat and Cugat vivió. He died of heart failure, of natural causes, in Barcelona on 27 October 1990.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1900
- Died
- 1990
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Yo Cugat
- Cugat vivió
- Rumba is my life
- Rumba Is My Life
- Yo Cugat
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Film & TV
Acting · Girona, Catalonia, Spain
Xavier Cugat was a catalan musician and bandleader, born in Spain (Girona, 1 January 1900 – Barcelona, 27 October 1990) 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 New York City, he was the leader of the resident orchestra at the Waldorf–Astoria before and after World War II. He was also a cartoonist and…
Known for
- Sex, Maracas & Chihuahuas — Self - Musician (archive footage)2016
- That's Entertainment! III — (archive footage)1994
- A Rose in the Wind — Xavier Cugat1984
- Nunca en horas de clase — El presidente1978
- That's Entertainment! — (archive footage) (uncredited)1974
- The Phynx — Xavier Cugat1970
- The Monitors — Bug for Culture1969
- The Merv Griffin Show — Self1962
- Susanna and Me — Xavier Cugat1957
- Art Ford's Greenwich Village Party — Self1957
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- La Habana
- Active from
- 1900
- Active to
- 1990
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 116,559
- Total plays
- 890,570
Tags
Xavier Cugat (January 1, 1900 - October 27, 1990) was a Spanish-Cuban bandleader whom many consider to have had more to do with the infusion of Latin music into United States popular music than any other musician. Perez Prado followed in Cugat's footsteps. 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. <a h
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,129x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,840x
- pROC: an open-source package for R and S+ to analyze and compare ROC curves
· 2011 · cited 11,845x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,989x
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,640x
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Official website
Xavier Cugat – El gironí més internacional i polifacètic
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Xavier
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of death
- Barcelona
- Spouse
- Charo
- Occupation
- violinist
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- RCA Records
- Official website
- www.xaviercugat.org
- Image
- Xavier Cugat (Gottlieb 10661).jpg
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- Commons category
- Xavier Cugat
- date of birth
- 1900-01-01
- date of death
- 1990-10-27
- name in native language
- Xavier Cugat i Mingall
- birth name
- Francesc d'Assís Xavier Cugat Mingall de Bru i Deulofeu
- cause of death
- heart failure
- start of work period
- 1912-00-00
- pseudonym
- Cugie
- manner of death
- natural causes
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