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The Creoles of color are an ethnic group of Louisiana Creoles that developed in the former French and Spanish colonies of Louisiana (especially in New Orleans), ...
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Roy F. Guste – author of ten Louisiana French-Creole cuisine cookbooks; fifth-generation proprietor of New Orleans' famed Antoine's Restaurant, established in 1840; Thomy Lafon (1810–1893) – businessman, philanthropist, and human rights activist; Austin Leslie (1934–2005) – internationally famous New Orleans chef whose work defined ...
Ory was born in 1886 to a Louisiana French-speaking family of Black Creole descent, on Woodland Plantation in Laplace, now the site of the 1811 Kid Ory Historic House. [3] [4] Ory started playing music with homemade instruments in his childhood, and by his teens was leading a well-regarded band in southeast Louisiana.
Bechet was born in New Orleans in 1897 to a middle-class Creole of color family. Bechet's father Omar was both a shoemaker and a flute player, and all four of his brothers were musicians as well. [3] His older brother, Leonard Victor Bechet, was a full-time dentist and a part-time trombonist and bandleader.
Alphonse Picou was born into a prosperous middle-class Creole of Color family in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. [1] His parents were Alfred Picou and Clotilde (Serpas) Picou, who also had other children: Cecilia, Willie, Feriol, Joseph, and Philomene Picou.
1994 Cajun & Creole Music (Music of the World) 1994 L' Echo (Rhino/Forward) 1995 Vintage Beausoleil (Music of the World) 1997 L' Amour Ou la Folie (Rhino) 1997 Arc de Triomphe Two-Step (Hemisphere) - recording of 1976; 2001 Looking Back Tomorrow: Beausoleil Live! (Rhino) 2004 Gitane Cajun (Vanguard) 2006 Live in Louisiana (Way Down in Louisiana)
Miles was born in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, in an Afro-Creole Kouri-Vini (Louisiana Creole) speaking family. As a child, she sang in her Catholic church and performed at parties and dances. She worked with Joe Oliver, Kid Ory, Bunk Johnson, and A.J. Piron from 1909 to 1911. She then toured the South ...