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Article: Latin violins: Part II.(Latin American, Spanish violinists in popular music)
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- Latin Beat Magazine
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK
A couple of violin-playing Catalonians raised in Cuba, Xavier Cugat and Enric "Enrique" Madriguera, enjoyed great success in the U.S. by the late 1920s and early 1930s, when their bands played diluted "Latin" sounds at the trendy downtown hotels of the Big Apple, while Orquesta Siboney--led by the classically trained Havanese violinist Alberto Iznaga--was mostly confined to the uptown clubs frequented by Latin American immigrants, where it played boleros, rumbas and danzones.
It is unquestionable that Cugat managed to become Hollywood's most successful Latin musician of the 1930s and 1940s, As a result of his numerous appearances in ...