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Veloz and Yolanda were a husband-wife ballroom dance team who
specialized in Latin dance numbers. This sleek and chic
couple began in vaudeville in the 1920s, moved on to
elegant supper clubs and then Broadway shows. When they
appeared on the cover of Life Magazine in 1939, the magazine
proclaimed them the "Greatest Dancing Couple". They were
BIG - the highest paid elite act through the 1930s and
1940s and without exception, the greatest Marquee Name the
dancing world has ever known. They performed in Carnegie
Hall, with major symphony orchestras around the world, and
eventually in Hollywood movies. At the Hollywood
Bowl they held the highest attendance record until it was
finally broken by the Beatles in 1964. Walt Disney
modeled Snow White after Yolanda. They hosted their own
TV show in the 1940s, received an oscar nomination in 1943 for
their short movie "Calvacade of Dance", and had
dance studios before Arthur Murray and Fred Astaire.
They, each, have
streets named after them in the San Fernando Valley, where
they lived in their later years. Veloz and Yolanda retired in the
early 1950's. |
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