Xavier Cugat
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.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: frankfob2@yahoo.com
All of the midis were created from piano solo + vocal scores.
For fun I am including orchestrated midi files as well as the
originals. These are short samples. There is
enough of the music to hear how they sound.
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Favorite Collection of Tangos & Rhumbas
(Piano / Vocal) Sheet Music
midi Cui - Cui
(Coo-ee Coo-ee)
midified Dusk
(Atardecer)
(Piano / Vocal) I changed the instruments
midi Flame
(Luz) Tango
midi Inspiration
(Inspiracio'n) Tango
midi My Shawl
(Ombo) Rhumba
mp3 My Shawl
This is a sequenced and orchestrated improvisation of the song.
midi Something New
American Version of (Negra Boy)
Favorite Collection of Mambos
(Piano / Vocal) Sheet Music