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Beau Jocque Born
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Beau Jocque Born

Andrus Espreé, known to the Zydeco Nation as Beau Jocque (which means Big Guy), was born on November 1, 1953 in Duralde, Louisiana. Lead singer of the Zydeco group Beau Jocque & the Zydeco Hi Rollers,...

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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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