February 22

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...

Frank Mendenhall died on Wednesday, February 20, 2007 of cancer in Mobile, Alabama. With one of the most angelic falsetto voice in the Zydeco, Southern Soul, and Blues nation, and one of the few South...

David “Fathead" Newman was born in Corsicana, Texas on February 24, 1933. His family soon moved to Dallas, Texas where they settled and David stayed through graduating Lincoln High School. During his...

Creole enthusiast and Zydeco music pioneer Luke Collins (b 1941) died on February 19, 2004 in Opelousas, Louisiana at the age of 63 after suffering a stroke a week earlier. Affectionately known as "th...

Rockin’ Sidney won a Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording for his 1986 single "My Toot Toot." from his third album “My Zydeco Shoes Got The Blues.”

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...

On this date, January 8, 1811, Black African slaves rebelled against their white masters in Louisiana. Known as the Point Coupee Revolt of 1811, the slave revolt took place in the area known as the Lo...

Herman Fuselier, On Air Radio Personality and Host of “The Zydeco Stomp” program at KRVS radio in Lafayette, Louisiana; Music Writer for The Times of Acadiana; and Host of the “Bayou Boogie” TV progra...

Cleveland Chenier, rubboard innovator, band member and brother of Clifton Chenier, died Tuesday May 7, 1991 at 11:10 a.m. at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Lafayette, Louisiana at the age of 70. He i...

Lola Love, radio personality, producer, promoter, and known to the Zydeco Nation as "the Zydeco Lady" was born on November 20, 1972 in the small village of San Nicolas de Ibarra, Mexico about 28 kilom...

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...

Robert Leroy Johnson, one of the greatest blues musicians of all time, was born on May 8, 1911 in Hazlehurst, Mississippi to Julia Major Dodds and Noah Johnson. Although his records sold poorly during...