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
Holly Cole which included "Christmas Time is Here" (from "A Charlie Brown Christmas"), "Santa Baby", and the title track. Swapping cold for hot, she moved to a summer theme in 2003's "Shade", this time reinterpreting Cole Porter ("Too Darn Hot"), Irving Berlin ("Heatwave"), and The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson ("God Only Knows"). The album was named Jazz Recording of the Year at the 2004 Juno Awards. Cole's album, "Holly Cole" (originally entitled "This House Is Haunted") was released in Canada in March 2007. It was released in the US in January 2008 and was followed by a US tour. Cole tours frequently,