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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]
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.
Paul Alton Senegal was born in Lafayette, Louisiana. According to researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc, the spelling "Sinegal" rather than "Senegal" was the result of a passport error, which he never corrected. Senegal was nicknamed "Little Buck" (for buckwheat) or "Lil' Buck" because of his short stature. [3]
University of Louisiana at Lafayette: Public radio: KRVV: 100.1 FM: ... Zydeco: KSLU: 90.9 FM: ... "French Radio Broadcasting in Louisiana". Southern Speech Journal ...
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. His sound is deeply rooted in traditional Creole music with strong influences from Cajun music and also country and western.
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 singles ...
Clide Vernon "Sonny" Landreth (born February 1, 1951) [1] is an American blues musician from southwest Louisiana who is especially known as a slide guitar player. He was born in Canton, Mississippi, and settled in Lafayette, Louisiana. [2] [3] He lives in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana.
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.