Lina Romay
Maria Elena "Lina" Romay (January 16, 1919 - December 17, 2010) was an American actress and singer. She was born in 1919 in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Porfirio Romay, then-attache to the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles. Romay performed for a time with Xavier Cugat before eventually retiring. She was featured on Cugat Rumba Revue on NBC radio in the early 1940s. Along with Cugat and his orchestra, she appeared in the films You Were Never Lovelier (1942) and Bathing Beauty (1944) and The Big Wheel, 1949. Prior to singing with Cugat, she had sung with Horace Heidt's orchestra, billed as Josette, a Frenchwoman. She was married to John Lawrence Adams, and later was the third wife of Jay Gould III, whom she married on 30 June 1953. Romay died at age 91 on December 17, 2010 of natural causes at a hospital in Pasadena, California. |
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Recordings
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | BS-056425 | 10-in. | 10/1/1940 | Agua agua! | Lina Romay ; Xavier Cugat Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with female vocal solo | vocalist | |
Decca | 81285 | 7/17/1951 | Be mine tonight | Lina Romay | vocalist | |||
Decca | 81286 | 7/17/1951 | Chiu chiu | Lina Romay | vocalist |
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Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Romay, Lina," accessed November 10, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/111889.
Romay, Lina. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 10, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/111889.
"Romay, Lina." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 10 November 2024.
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LCNAR: Romay, Lina - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002095169
Wikidata: Lina Romay (singer) - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q435621
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