XAVIER CUGAT - MAMBO (2 CD´s)

Francesc d'Asís Xavier Cugat Mingall de Bru i Deulofe (Gerunda, 1 de janeiro de 1900 — Barcelona, 27 de outubro de 1990) foi um maestro catalão-cubano, um dos pioneiros na popularização da música latina nos Estados Unidos. Cugat nasceu na Catalunha e quando tinha três anos, sua família se mudou para Havana, Cuba. Sempre propenso à música, foi morar em Los Angeles, Estados Unidos, onde ele trabalhou como cartunista no jornal Los Angeles Times durante o dia e como maestro de noite. Depois de alguns anos se apresentando em pequenos clubes na área de Los Angeles, Cugat
finalmente teve sua oportunidade quando ele e sua orquestra um emprego na prestigiosa boate Coconut Grove em 1928. Seu estilo musical popularizou-se e Cugat contribuiu para trazer a música latina para a atenção do público norte-americano.
Nos anos 30 e 40, ele foi apelidado de O Rei da Rumba devido à popularização dessa dança. Em suas aparições em filmes, Cugat interpretava a si próprio, mesmo se o personagem tivesse outro nome que não o dele, e, junto de sua orquestra, apareceu em vários musicais memoráveis da MGM nos anos 40. Após sofrer um derrame em 1971, Xavier
aposentou-se e morreu Barcelona.
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Francesc d'Asís Xavier Cugat Mingall de Bru i Deulofeu (1 January 1900 – 27 October 1990) was a Catalan-Cuban-American 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 in Girona, in Catalonia (Spain). With his family, he immigrated to Cuba when he was five. He trained as a classical violinist and played with the Orchestra of the Teatro Nacional in Havana. On 6 July 1915, Cugat and his family arrived in New York as immigrant passengers on board the S.S. Havana. Entering the world of show business, he played with a band called “The Gigolos” during the tango craze. Later, he went to work for the Los Angeles Times as a cartoonist. Cugat's caricatures were later
nationally syndicated. In the late 1920s, as sound began to be used in films, he put together another tango band that had some success in early short musical films. By the early 1930s, he began appearing with his group in feature films. Cugat took his band to New York for the 1931 opening of Waldorf Astoria Hotel and it became the hotel's resident band. One of his trademarks was to hold a small Chihuahua dog while he waved his baton with the other arm. He shuttled between New York and Los Angeles for most of the next thirty years, alternating hotel and radio dates with movie appearances in films such as Week-End at the Waldorf (1945) and Neptune's Daughter (1949). In 1940, he recorded the song Perfidia with singer Miguelito Valdés which became a big hit. Cugat followed trends closely, making records for the conga, the
mambo, the cha-cha-cha, and the twist when each was in fashion. His first marriage was to Rita Montaner, his second to Carmen Castillo (1929 – 1946), his third to Lorraine Allen (1947 – 28 April 1952), and his fourth to singer Abbe Lane in
1952. He and Lane performed together until their divorce in 1964. He married salsa dancer Charo on 7 August 1966. The two were the first couple to marry in the newly opened Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip. Cugat did not lose sleep over artistic compromises: “I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.” Cugat died of heart failure at age 90 in Barcelona in his native Catalonia, Spain.
(By Wikipedia)
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ALBUM : XAVIER CUGAT - MAMBO (2 CD´s)

TRACKS/FAIXAS
CD 1
01. Maracaibo
02. Anything can happen-mambo
03. Cerezo Rosa y Manzano Blanco
04. Mambo O.K
05. Park Avenue Mambo
06. Jamay
07. Mambo gallego
08. El Marijuano
09. Mambo nº5
10. Strangers in the dark
11. Mambo ay ay ay
12. Mondongo
13. Mambo gitano
14. Mambolette
15. Carnival in Uruguay
16. Que rico el mambo
17. Uuuh!
18. Mambo at the Waldorf

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CD 2
01. Riviera Mambo
02. Humpty Dumpty
03. Yo Quiero Un Mambo
04. Mambo Gordo
05. Society Mambo
06. The Peanut Vendor
07. Mambo Mania
08. El Americano
09. Cuca
10. Mambo No. 8
11. Donde Estabas Tu
12. Mambo Retozon
13. Flute Nightmare
14. Mambo Negro
15. Mi Prieta
16. Africano Soy
17. Sun Sun Babe
18. Mambo En Espana

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