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.
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Xavier Cugat
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.
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David Díaz is a Cuban-American freelance multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and music educator in the Southern California area. He began music at the of age 5 with the guitar through his father (David Diaz-Gonzales) who was a modernist painter from Cuba and a Nueva Trova guitarist. He later began to study the clarinet and the saxophone where he graduated in music from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). After his studies at UCLA, he joined the U.S Air Force Band of the West where he performed around the world. To his credit, he has performed with the following artists: Bill Watrous, Sammy Nestico, Eddie Palmieri, Kenny Burrell, Hubert Laws, Rene Fleming, Boston Brass, and many others.more
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