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Louisiana Music Factory is an independent record and CD store located on Frenchmen Street in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana. Its specialty is local music, and is well-known among music aficionados around the world. Its rich inventory of New Orleans and Louisiana music include CDs and vinyl of traditional jazz, blues ...
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BeauSoleil is one of a few groups performing traditional Louisiana music to win a Grammy Award. L'Amour Ou La Folie (Love Or Folly), recorded in 1996 and released on Rhino Records, earned the 1997 Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album.
Charles Louis Domingue was born on November 22, 1944, in Welsh, Louisiana. [1] He recorded his first single "Keep Your Arms Around Me", a regional hit, in 1965 under the name of Charles Mann, and he then kept this artist's name. [2] His biggest US hit came in 1969 with the Neil Diamond song "Red Red Wine". [3]
Menard was born in Erath, Louisiana, and was the only child [3] of Ophy and Helena Primeaux Menard. [4] He was part of a Cajun farming family. He took up the guitar at age 16 and started playing dances in Louisiana clubs at 17. [4]
The music of Louisiana can be divided into three general regions: rural south Louisiana, home to Creole Zydeco and Old French (now known as cajun music), New Orleans, and north Louisiana. The region in and around Greater New Orleans has a unique musical heritage tied to Dixieland jazz, blues , and Afro-Caribbean rhythms.
Jordan was born in Crowley, Louisiana, [1] and was raised during the time when rice farming was the predominant economic activity in the area. [2] Jordan has noted that the music in southwestern Louisiana was "strictly Zydeco and Blues from way around, and that's what I came up listening to."
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