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    Xavier Cugat (Catalan: [ʃəβiˈe kuˈɣat]; 1 January 1900 – 27 October 1990) was a Spanish musician and bandleader who spent his formative years in Havana...
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    guitarist Andrés Segovia. In 1966, she married 66-year-old bandleader Xavier Cugat and moved to the United States with him. In the late 1960s and 1970s...
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    first marriage was as the fourth wife of Latin bandleader and musician Xavier Cugat, more than thirty years her senior. Born Abigail Francine Lassman on...
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    films. Francis Cugat was born in Barcelona in 1893, an older brother of Xavier Cugat. The Cugat family emigrated to Cuba in 1903. Cugat studied at the...
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    dramatist and novelist Xavier Cortada (born 1964), Cuban-American painter Xavier Cugat (1900–1990), Spanish-Cuban bandleader Xavier Davis (born 1971), American...
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  • Smith, music teacher Xavier Cugat as himself, leader of Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra Lina Romay as herself, singer with Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra...
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  • musical performances of the Brazilian singer Carmen Miranda and bandleader Xavier Cugat. In this film, Miranda is given to humorous malapropisms such as "His...
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    where she sang with Frank Sinatra. She recorded and performed with the Xavier Cugat orchestra, and signed a recording contract with RCA Victor Records in...
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    lyrics by Milton Leeds) and as an instrumental. The song became a hit for Xavier Cugat on the Victor label in 1940. In late 1960, a rock instrumental version...
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  • Williams, Red Skelton, Ricardo Montalbán, Betty Garrett, Keenan Wynn, Xavier Cugat and Mel Blanc. It was directed by Edward Buzzell, and features the debut...
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