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The band then signed to Island Records, becoming the first zydeco act on a major label, and released On a Night Like This, a critically acclaimed album that was nominated for a Grammy as well. The band appeared in the movie The Big Easy in 1987, [ 10 ] which made Zydeco "even trendier" and "gave a huge boost to the interest in all things Cajun ...
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Geno Delafose (born February 6, 1971) [1] [2] is an American zydeco accordionist and singer.He is one of the younger generations of the genre who has created the sound known as the nouveau zydeco.
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 ...
Other notable sludge metal bands such as Acid Bath, [8] Down, [9] Soilent Green [10] and Choke [11] are based in Louisiana. Blackened death metal band Goatwhore are from New Orleans. Britney Spears (from Kentwood) has had four #1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including the dance-pop song "...Baby One More Time" from 1999.
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 performing their indigenous zydeco roots music. [3] This was a pivotal time in zydeco music history since the pioneers of the genre were aging and the music was in jeopardy of dying off without the ...
Dave Bartholomew (1918–2019) – musician, band leader, composer and arranger, prominent in the music of New Orleans throughout the second half of the 20th century [5] Jon Batiste (born 1986) – singer, multi-instrumentalist, educator, and bandleader from Kenner, Louisiana ; music director and bandleader for The Late Show with Stephen ...
Zachary Richard mentions Chenier in his song "Clif's Zydeco" (on Richard's 2012 album Le Fou). The Squeezebox Stompers' "Zydeco Train" says, "Clifton Chenier, he's the engineer." The jam band Phish often covers Chenier's song "My Soul" in live performances. [17] Chenier is the subject of Les Blank's 1973 documentary film Hot Pepper.