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Martin Denny

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American pianist and composer best known for originating the Exotica genre of music (1911–2005)

Person · Open Library

Born
21 December 1947
Died
24 August 2007
Works
10

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1911-04-10
Active to
2005-03-02
easy listeningexoticajazzlounge

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
203,764
Total plays
2,317,688

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Martin Denny (born April 10, 1911 in New York City, NY, United States - died March 2, 2005 in Honolulu, Hawaii) was an American musician. He was universally known as the founder and reigning king of exotica music, a type of big band music with Latin rhythms and overtones of Pacific Ocean culture that is largely scorned by critics but was extremely popular in the 1950s and 1960s. Martin Denny's breakthrough album, Exotica, Denny described the music his combo plays as "window dressing, a backgro

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