Unknown / unusual facts about Xavier Cugat.

He discovered and promoted a young Frank Sinatra. A copy of one of Sinatra's records is still in existance and if sold, it could fetch a fortune. Sinatra sang in catalan, Cugats's mother tongue.

Sinatra was a friend of Cugat's and attended Cugat's funeral in 1990 in Girona, Catalonia (on the Spanish side).

There is a replica of Cugat's Hollywood Sunset Boulevard star just outside the house where he was born, in Girona, Catalonia. The building is now government owned.