August 11

E. Rodney Jones, legendary radio personality, DJ, and Bluseologist, was born on August 8, 1927 in Texarkana, Arkansas. E. Rodney Jones was a member of the Black Radio Hall of Fame and the Louisiana Bl...

Mark Matthews, the oldest surviving Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army when he died at the age of 111, was born on August 7, 1894 in Greenville, Alabama. He was raise in Mansfield, Ohio where a...

Step Rideau & the Zydeco Outlaw's song "From Step To U" became the first Zydeco song to be sample by a major Hip Hop/Rap group. The song was sampled in the UGK's hip hop track "Swishas and Dosha" on t...

Soul singer Louis "Big Lou" Washington Sr was born on Monday, August 4, 1941 in Opelousas, Louisiana. He was the fourth child of Nathan Washington and Stella Moore-Washington. "Big Lou" Washington beg...

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...

Skipper Lee Frazier, Houston radio disc jockey, record label owner, businessman, and promoter, was born on July 31, 1927 in Magnolia Springs, Texas to James Frazier and Dora Lee Traylor. For over 22 y...

William Thomas Dupree, known to the world as “Champion” Jack Dupree died on January 21, 1992 of complications from cancer at his home in Hanover, Germany at the age of 82. Considered one of the most p...

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...

Alton Rubin, known to the Zydeco Nation as Rockin' Dopsie "the Prince of Zydeco", died on August 26, 1993 in Opelousas, Louisiana of heart failure at the age of 64. He was married Alvina LeBlanc and h...

Elias “Bo Diddley” Bates-McDaniel is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the second annual induction dinner. The members of ZZ Top are his presenters.

Stanley Dural, Jr., known to the world as Buckwheat Zydeco was born on November 14, 1947 in Lafayette, Louisiana. In 1971, he founded Buckwheat & the Hitchhikers, a funk band that he led for five year...

Guitarist/singer Roscoe Chenier was born November 6, 1941 in the rural community of Notleyville, just east of Opelousas, Louisiana. The son of Arthur and Philomen Chenier, he is a cousin of the late,...