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Zydeco MusicJAN · 151929
Queen Ida Born

Ida Guillory was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana on January 15, 1929. She grew up in the Cajun/Creole communities of Southwest Louisiana and East Texas. She later became know to the world as Queen Ida...

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Juré was an older Creole tradition of call-and-response singing, clapping and stomping — rhythm and voice without instruments — that fed into early zydeco.

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