Xavier Cugat: (Not) Just a Gigolo
Xavier Cugat (Francisco de Asis Javier Cugat) was one of the first people born in the 20th century — January 1, 1900 (making it very easy to calculate what was going in his life in relation to the calendar year!). We tend to think of him as a “Cuban-American bandleader”, although technically, he was born […]