Beguine (dance) Porter's "Jubilee" (1935). In 1984 Italian pop music duo Al Bano and Romina Power released the song "Al ritmo de beguine (Ti amo)" from their album "Effetto amore". Beguine (dance) The beguine is a dance and music form, similar to a slow rhumba. It was popular in the 1930s, coming from the islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique, where in local Creole "Beke" or "Begue" means a White person, and "Beguine" is the female form. It is a combination of Latin folk dance and French ballroom dance, and is a spirited but slow, close dance with a roll of the hips
June Knight introduced the Cole Porter classic "Begin the Beguine"), "The Would-Be Gentleman" (1946) (her only non-musical) and "Sweethearts" (1947). She also had a short-lived film career, appearing in 12 films from 1930 to 1940, most notably in "Broadway Melody of 1936" (1935), in which she sang the hit song "I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin'" with co-star Robert Taylor. Knight married four times, including a marriage to oil man Arthur A. Cameron. She died in 1987, age 74, due to complications from a stroke; she was interred in Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park. For her contribution to the motion picture industry,