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His music group was formally billed as Buckwheat Zydeco and Ils Sont Partis Band [3] ("Ils Sont Partis" being French for "They have left," or a race announcer's "And they're off!" [4]), but they often performed as merely Buckwheat Zydeco. The New York Times said: "Stanley 'Buckwheat' Dural leads one of the best bands in America. A down-home and ...
While in his teens, he taught himself to play accordion and formed his first band Terrance Simien & The Mallet Playboys, and began to play the regional zydeco club and church hall circuit. In the early 1980s, Simien was a youth in his early 20s and one of only two (Sam Brothers was the other) emerging zydeco artists leading a band and ...
For years, he has played traditional polka music on his accordion, but a series of upheavals in his life inspires an interest in American Zydeco and Cajun music. Despite his initial fear of travelling to the United States, he accepts his music club's wish to represent it at a German folk music festival in New Braunfels, Texas.
Chavis made his first recording in 1955, "Paper in My Shoe", based on a song he heard performed by Creole accordionist Ambrose "Potato" Sam. [5] Chavis's version was an uptempo tune with a dance beat about being too poor to afford new shoes or socks, so he placed a paper in his shoes to keep his feet warm when the holes in the sole got too large. [12]
Zydeco music is typically played in an uptempo, syncopated manner with a strong rhythmic core, [3] and often incorporates elements of blues, rock and roll, soul music, R&B, Cajun, and early Creole music. Zydeco music is centered on the accordion, which leads the rest of the band, and a specialized washboard, called a vest frottoir, as a ...
Clifton Chenier (June 25, 1925 – December 12, 1987), [1] [2] was an American musician known as a pioneer of zydeco, a style of music that arose from Creole music, with R&B, blues, and Cajun influences. He sang and played the accordion. Chenier won a Grammy Award in 1983. [1]
Keith Frank (born 1972) is an American zydeco musician from Soileau, Louisiana, United States. [1] Frank started his band, The Soileau Zydeco Band , in 1990 and is active as of 2023. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He is the son of accordion player Preston Frank , [ 4 ] and got his start playing for his father's bands, called the Soileau Playboys ( Arhoolie ...
After Rockin' Dopsie died in 1993, Dwayne Dopsie dropped out of high school to pursue zydeco music full-time. [2] He founded his own band, the Zydeco Hellraisers, in 1999 when he was nineteen years old, [ 3 ] and that same year was named "America's Hottest Accordionist" in a competition run by the American Accordion Association.