May 27

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...

Henry Lee Williams, known to the Southern Soul and Blues Nation as Lee "Shot" Williams was born on May 21, 1938 in the small country town of Lexington, Mississippi.He grew up singing in local gospel g...

On Wednesday, May 21, 2014, Creole musician, Goldman Thibodeaux was presented the Louisiana Folk Life Heritage Award as part of the Louisiana Culture Awards by Lt. Governor Jay Dardenne.

Pernell Babineaux, bass guitarist for the Zydeco Boneshakers, was born on June 2, 1968 in Houston, Texas.

Ellas “Bo Diddley” Bates, known to the world as “Bo Diddley” died on June 2, 2008 at the age of 79 of heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida. Garry Mitchell, a grandson of Diddley and one of mor...

Highly respected and sultry jazz and blues singer, Ms. Dakota Staton, (pronounced STAY-Ton) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 3, 1930. She began singing and dancing at the age of 7 She rece...

Bo Diddley’s “Pretty Thing” becomes a Top Forty hit in January 1956. One of Bo Diddley’s best-known songs, “Pretty Thing,” inspired a British band to name itself the Pretty Things.

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...

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...

Lucky Philip Dube' (pronounced doo-bay), known to the world as Lucky Dube' was born on August 3, 1964. Lucky Dube was a South African reggae musician. He recorded 22 albums in Zulu, English and Afrika...

Thomas Andrew Dorsey, the father of gospel music, died on January 23, 1993 in Chicago, Illinois at the age of 93. He is interred there in the Oak Woods Cemetery. Earlier in his life he was a leading b...

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...