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Xavier Cugat: 1900-1990: Musician, bandleader.

Xavier Cugat, best known for his "percolating dance numbers [that] swept the country like tropical fever during the 1930s and '40s," according to Time magazine, played and conducted in some of America's most famous nightspots, including New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and Los Angeles's Coconut Grove.

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A classically trained violinist who conducted with his bow, he was known in his lifetime as the Rumba King. He is credited with pushing Latino music and dance into popularity in America during the first half of the 20th Century.

Born Francisco de Asis Javier Cugat de Bru Mingall Deulofeo in Gerona, Spain to Juan Cugat de Bru, an inventor and handyman, and Avila Mingall, a seam-stress, Cugat was one of four brothers.

Not much is known about Cugat's early life in Spain, but Cugat's family moved to Cuba when he was very young. It was after the move to Cuba that Cugat started vio Cerezo Rosa - YouTube FOZ