The last of the big band leaders who would go on to create a musical style dubbed space age bachelor pad music, Juan Garcia Esquivel, died Jan. 3 at his home in Jiutepac, Morelos, Mexico, from the ...

2002-01-10 04:00:00 PDT Jiutepec, Mexico-- Juan Garcia Esquivel, who became a cult icon when his eccentric music from the 1950s and '60s was rediscovered in the '90s, died Jan. 3 at his home after a ...

Composer/band leader/pianist and lounge-music icon Juan Garcia Esquivel died Jan. 3 in Jiutepec, Mexico, following a stroke, Billboard Bulletin reports. He was 83. Esquivel, who used only his surname… ...

Before there was Bjork, or Prince, or Liberace—well, right around the same time as Liberace—there was Esquivel. Or, to give him his preferred billing, “Esquivel!” That jazzy exclamation point tells ...

2002 - Composer/band leader/pianist and lounge-music icon Juan Garcia Esquivel dies in Jiutepec, Mexico, following a stroke. He is 83. By Billboard Staff 2004 – Britney Spears, 22, gets married in Las ...