January 29

Henry Roeland Byrd, known to the world, as Professor Longhair, one of New Orleans’s greatest pianist, died on January 30, 1980 at the age of 62 peacefully in his sleep in New Orleans, Louisiana. His f...

Mr. Stanley Dural Jr., known to the Zydeco Nation and the world as “Buckwheat Zydeco” and leader of the Zydeco outfit “Buckwheat Zydeco and the Ils Sont Partis Band” was awarded the 2009 Grammy Award...

Thomas Andrew Dorsey, the father of gospel music, died on January 23, 1993 in Chicago, Illinois at the age of 93. He is interred there in the Oak Woods Cemetery. Earlier in his life he was a leading b...

Carlton Frank, one of the last of the old-time Creole fiddlers, died February 5, 2005, at the age of 74 at a hospital in Jennings, Louisiana. His music lives on through his recordings. In 2001, Keith...

Elias “Bo Diddley” Bates-McDaniel is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the second annual induction dinner. The members of ZZ Top are his presenters.

William Thomas Dupree, known to the world as “Champion” Jack Dupree died on January 21, 1992 of complications from cancer at his home in Hanover, Germany at the age of 82. Considered one of the most p...

Danny Poullard, highly respected Creole accordionist and native of Richie, Louisiana, died on April 27, 2001 at the age of 63. Danny Poullard was instrumental in the development of the California Creo...

Crowley, Louisiana natives Bobby Jackson, age 46 (Guitarist), and Bradley Guilbeau, age 39 (Drummer), musicians with the Zydeco Band Dikki Du & the Zydeco Crew were killed in an auto accident on June...

Ms. Eartha Kitt was born on January 17, 1927 on a cotton plantation in the tiny town of North, South Carolina. Her mother (black cotton picker) was of Cherokee and African-American descent, and her fa...

Mark Matthews, the oldest surviving Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army, died on September 6, 2005 age of 111. While working at a racetrack in Kentucky, he met several Buffalo Soldiers, and when...

James Carroll Booker III, known as the Piano Prince, was an extremely talented jazz, New Orleans rhythm and blues and soul musician, was born on December 17, 1939 in New Orleans, Louisiana. While stil...

On February 13, 2011, Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band won their first Grammy Award for the best Zydeco/Cajun CD. The name of the CD was entitled "Zydeco Junkie." Some of the musicians who work...