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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.
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]
Carrier has made guest appearances on albums by Tab Benoit – Live: Swampland Jam, Doug Kershaw – Cajun Sweet Home Louisiana, Calvin Owens – Stop Lying in My Face and Jimmy Thackery – Switching Gears. Carrier's 2010 release Zydeco Junkie won the Grammy in the category Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album. [2]
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 ...
Category: Musicians from Lafayette, Louisiana. 4 languages. ... Buckwheat Zydeco This page was last edited on 13 October 2023, at 00:21 (UTC). ...
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.
The term Creole music (French: musique créole) is used to refer to two distinct musical traditions: art songs adapted from 19th-century vernacular music; or the vernacular traditions of Louisiana Creole people which have persisted as 20th- and 21st-century la la and zydeco in addition to influencing Cajun music.