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The Zydeco Spice is a team in the Women's Football Alliance. The team began playing in the 2010 season as the Acadiana Zydeco and returned for the 2021 season under a new name. Based in the Acadiana region (and more specifically the Lafayette metropolitan area) of Louisiana, the Zydeco plays its home games at Lafayette Christian Academy in ...
Fernest Arceneaux (August 27, 1940 – September 4, 2008) [1] was a French-speaking Creole Zydeco accordionist and singer from Louisiana. He was known as "The New Prince of Accordion" for his virtuosity.
Clifton Chenier (June 25, 1925 – December 12, 1987), [1] [2] was an American musician known as a pioneer of zydeco or Creole music. He sang and played the accordion. Chenier won a Grammy Award in 1983. [1] Chenier was known as the King of Zydeco, [1] [2] [3] and also billed as the King of the South. [4]
Jeffery Broussard (born March 10, 1967) is an American zydeco musician.. Broussard was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, to parents Ethel and Delton Broussard.He had five brothers and sisters, and he was the youngest child.
Joe Hall was an American accordionist and vocalist who performed Creole la la, Cajun, and zydeco music. He passed away on November 21, 2024. Hall was born in Eunice, Louisiana, on December 15, 1971. [1]
August was born in Lafayette, Louisiana. [1] Though sometimes said to have been blind from birth, [3] his own recollection is of having some sight until about the age of four. [4] He attended the Louisiana State School for the Blind in Baton Rouge, and grew up listening to zydeco music, including that of his uncle Claude Duffy, an accordion player
Critic Richie Unterberger described the record as "a fairly straight blues album with faint or nonexistent traces of zydeco", [6] Sinegal commented: "I am probably more known as a zydeco guitarist... [but] I've always been a bluesman...Zydeco is the blues. It's basically blues played with accordion. Clifton Chenier's music was blues throughout ...
Captain Gumbo is a Dutch band formed in 1987, which plays mostly zydeco and Cajun music; that is, music in the French traditions of the U.S. state of Louisiana, based around the diatonic accordion. In 1990, their version of " Allons à Lafayette " (a song first recorded in 1928 by Joe Falcon and Cléoma Breaux ) reached No. 30 in the Dutch ...