Martin Denny
Sign in to saveAmerican pianist and composer best known for originating the Exotica genre of music (1911–2005)
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- 21 December 1947
- Died
- 24 August 2007
- Works
- 10
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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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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Martin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Honolulu
- Occupation
- jazz musician
- Educated at
- USC Thornton School of Music
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- piano
- Record label
- Liberty Records
- Conflict
- World War II
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- date of birth
- 1911-04-10
- date of death
- 2005-03-02
- cause of death
- disease
- manner of death
- natural causes
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