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Edward Gay Robinson known to the world as "Eddie Robinson" was born on February 13, 1919 in Jackson, Louisiana to the son of a sharecropper and a domestic worker. Eddie Robinson spent fifty-six years...
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...
Marvin Matthew Sease Sr., Southern Soul and Blues Legend was born on February 16, 1946 to Charlie and Heaster Sease in Blackville, South Carolina. His musical roots were deep as Marvin grew up in the...
Joseph Roy Carrier, leader of Roy Carrier & the Night Rockers, was born on February 11, 1947 to a sharecropper family in Lawtell-Opelousas area in rural southwest Louisiana. His black Creole roots ran...
Alton Rubin, known to the Zydeco Nation as Rockin' Dopsie "the Prince of Zydeco", was born on February 10, 1932 in Carencro, Louisiana. As a child he worked in the sugarcane and cotton fields. His fat...
Southern Soul and Blues singer, Tyrone Davis, died on February 9, 2007 in a Chicago hospital at the age of 66. In October 2004, he suffered a stroke which curtailed his career. Working as a valet/chaf...
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Happy Birthday to the Zydeco Lady, Lola Love!!! Best Wishes from the Zydeco Nation, Zydeco Historical & Preservation Society and the ZydecoOnline Family!!!
Zydeco musician Chirs Ardoin, lead singer and accordionist of Chris Ardoin & Nu Step Zydeko was born on March 7, 1981 in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Chris Ardoin helped pioneer and develop the "Double Cl...
Queen Ida won a Grammy Award at the 25th Annual Grammy Awards for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording for her 1982 album "On Tour." Queen Ida was the first Zydeco Artist and only woman who playe...
Eddie Shuler, renowned pioneering Southwest Louisiana recording engineer, died on July 23, 2005 at the age of 92 at Emory East Side Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia of complications from a recent heart at...
Joseph Melvin Walker died on Saturday, December 18, 2021 at 2:00 am in Lake Charles, Louisiana. An accomplished accordionist, guitarist and keyboardist with a powerful and unique gospel influenced voi...
Zydeco Historical & Preservation Society web developer Rob Ricks brought the fourth (4th) version ZydecoOnline website online. The original and first version of the ZydecoOnline.com website was launch...
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