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Freddie "Big Roger" Collins was born July 15, 1935 in Ville Platte, Louisiana.

Creole Accordionist Clement “King Ned" Norman was born on Saturday, July 14, 1906 in L’Anse Meg, Louisiana ( a rural unincorporated community between Mamou and Eunice) to Jean Batiste Ned and Oceole F...

Trey Ardoin, lead guitar player for Chris Ardoin and NuStep and Sean Ardoin & Zydekool, was born on July 12, 1985 in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Zydeco musician Sean Ardoin, lead singer and accordionist of Sean Ardoin and R.O.G.K. (a Christian Zydeco Band) and lead singer and accordionist of Sean Ardoin and Zydekool was born on July 10, 1967 i...

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...

Southern Soul & Blues singer Jacqueline "Jazzy Jackie" Neal was born on July 7, 1967 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She was the daughter of internationally known Baton Rouge blues man Raful Neal. Eight of...

Zydeco Musician and lead accordionist of Rosie Ledet & the Zydeco Playboys, Rosie Ledet, formerly, Mary Roszela Bellard, aka known as "The Zydeco Sweetheart" was born on October 25, 1971 in Church Poi...

Baldemar Huerta, known to the world as Freddy Fender, transitioned at 12:14 PM on October 14, 2006 at the age of 69 of lung cancer at his home in Corpus Christi, Texas. Hi is buried in his hometown of...

Clinton “Santy” Runyon (b 1907) died on April 4, 2003 in Lafayette, Louisiana at the age of 96. Santy Runyon was a world renowned saxophonist, who played in Al Capone's speakeasy club, The Coliseum, a...

Marvin Matthew Sease Sr., Southern Soul and Blues Legend died of pneumonia at River Region Medical Center in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on February 8, 2011, eight days before his 65th birthday. His music...

Ms. Eartha Kitt was born on January 17, 1927 on a cotton plantation in the tiny town of North, South Carolina. Her mother (black cotton picker) was of Cherokee and African-American descent, and her fa...

Highly respected creole fiddler Canray Fontenot was born October 23, 1918, in d l'Anse des Rougeaux, Louisiana (an unincorporated community outside Eunice, Louisiana). His family was originally from t...