Enric Madriguera and His Orchestra

Artist: Enric Madriguera and His Orchestra

LP: Sourth American Tempos [10" EP]

Song: "South American Flame"
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This 1954 10" EP from Enric Madriguera and His Orchestra is another one of the neat things I found at the GoodWill Thrift Store after church on Sunday. Born in Barcelona, Spain in 1904, Enric was a child prodigy of the violin. He came to the USA when he was just 14 years old, along with his sister, Paquita, who was a child prodigy of the classical piano. Paquita ended up in South America, and Enric landed in Havana, Cuba, where he became director of the Havana Symphony. When Enric returned to New York a few years later, he brought Cuban music with him and helped make the Latin sound popular in the The Big Apple in the mid-1920s. I learned all of this just now from the terrific On This Day In Jazz Age Music blog here. You can find Enric Madriguera's film music credits on IMDB here, and read more on Wikipedia here.

 [ Enric Madriguera: February 17, 1904 — September 7, 1973 ]