Enrique Jorrín

Enrique Jorrín was a Cuban charanga violinist, composer and music director. He is considered the inventor of the cha-cha-chá, a popular style of ballroom music derived from danzón.

25 December 1926

Born on the same birth day (25 December): Alannah Myles • Enrique Morente • Francis Dunnery • Glenn McCarthy • Humphrey Bogart • Joel Santana • Johannes Buxtorf • Lila Acheson Wallace • Naushad • Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy • Robbie Elliott • Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior

Born in the same month (December 1926): Allyn Ann McLerie • Billy Snedden • Bobby Layne • David Nathan (journalist) • Harold Dorman • Henry Way Kendall • James McCracken • Jan Křesadlo • Jerome Courtland • John Hans Krebs • Keith Michell • Roberta Leigh