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Contemporary zydeco’s most widely used performer, accordionist Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural was the organic successor towards the throne vacated from the death of his mentor Clifton Chenier; infusing his propulsive party music with strains of rock and roll and R&B, his urbanized audio — filled with details of synthesizer and trumpet …

The son lately zydeco music pioneer Clifton Chenier, C.J. Chenier (blessed Clayton Joseph Chenier) continues to be dubbed “the crown prince of zydeco.” Since inheriting command of his father’s group, the Crimson Sizzling hot Louisiana Band, Chenier provides continued to pay for tribute to his father’s audio and to broaden …

The son lately influential zydeco accordionist John Delafose, Geno Delafose has continued to expand on his father’s musical legacy. Regarding his music group, French Rockin’ Boogie, Delafose offers blended the original noises of zydeco using the exhilaration of contemporary dance music. “We’ve that old nation experience,” Delafose stated during a …

The forming of BeauSoleil, one of the better known & most highly respected cajun bands on the planet, is because of fiddler Michael Doucet’s wish to keep carefully the unique southern Louisiana culture and music from extinction. But while BeauSoleil originated to greatly help protect his cajun musical heritage, over …

The scraping and scrubbing rhythms of Cleveland Chenier’s frottoir (rub-board) were an important ingredient from the performances and recordings of his youthful sibling, Clifton, “The Ruler Of Zydeco”, for a lot more than 4 decades. The kid of the sharecropper and amateur accordion participant, Joe Chenier” along with a electric …

Boozoo Chavis (given birth to Wilson Anthony Chavis) was among the pioneers of zydeco, the Cajun and blues cross types while it began with southwest Louisiana. Although his self-composed 1954 one, “Paper in my own Shoes and boots,” was the initial zydeco strike, Chavis was distrustful from the music sector …