Frank Mendenhall was born March 14, 1948 in Camden, Alabama. With one of the most angelic falsetto voice in the Zydeco, Southern Soul, and Blues nation, and one of the few Southern Soul performers to...
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In the 1920s and ’30s, Creole families from Louisiana settled in Houston’s Fifth Ward, in a neighbourhood that became known as Frenchtown — one of zydeco’s great homes in Texas.
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