Xavier Cugat
Soundtrack Actor Music Department
- Gender: Male
- Birthday: 1900-01-01
- Day of Death: 1990-10-27 ( 90 years old )
- Place of Birth: Girona, Catalonia, Spain
- Also Known As: Francisco de Asís Javier Cugat Mingall de Bru y Deulofeu / The Rumba King
- IMDB:nm0191265
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 …
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