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Clifton Chenier, “the King of Zydeco” and Creole French speaking native of Notelyville, a small community outside of Opelousas, Louisiana died on December 12, 1987 at the age of 62 after a long strugg...
Joseph Melvin Walker was born on Thursday, December 14, 1944 in Lafayette, Louisiana. An accomplished accordionist, guitarist and keyboardist with a powerful and unique gospel influenced voice, Joe Wa...
The Zydeco Nation's own elder statesmen, Creole Musician and lead accordionist for Goldman Thibodeaux & the Lawtell Playboys was inducted into the Acadian Museum's Order of Living Legends on Saturday,...
Huddie Ledbetter, better known to the music world as “Lead Belly” died on December 6, 1949 from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s disease). He later became known as the “King of the twelve-s...
Geno Delafose, Cedric Watson, & Terrance Simien were announced as the final nominees of the first Grammy category for Zydeco and Cajun Musicians. Seven finalist were choose for the Best Zydeco and Caj...
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...
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Stanley Dural, Jr., known to the world as Buckwheat Zydeco was born on November 14, 1947 in Lafayette, Louisiana. In 1971, he founded Buckwheat & the Hitchhikers, a funk band that he led for five year...
Joseph Adam Mouton, known to the Zydeco Nation as Zydeco Joe was born on October 25, 1943 in Lafayette, Louisiana. He was "raised up in Carencro" (as he sang in many of his songs), living on a farm gr...
Southern Soul and Blues singer, Tyrone Davis, was born on May 4, 1938 to Willie Branch and Ora Lee Jones in a rural community twenty miles outside of Greenville, Mississippi. Working as a valet/chaffe...
Ellas “Bo Diddley” Bates, known to the world as “Bo Diddley” was born on Sunday, December 30, 1928, on a small farm near the town of McComb, Mississippi, in rural Pike County, close to the Louisiana b...
On October 18, 2007, South African reggae singer, Lucky Dube was killed in the Johannesburg, South Africa suburb of Rosettenville shortly after dropping two of his seven children off at their uncle’s...
Bo Diddley makes his network TV debut on The Ed Sullivan Show, on November 20, 1955.
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