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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...
Joseph Roy Carrier, leader of Roy Carrier & the Night Rockers, was born on February 11, 1947 to a sharecropper family in Lawtell-Opelousas area in rural southwest Louisiana. His black Creole roots ran...
Joseph Wilfred Chavis born on Saturday, May 5, 1945 Church Point, Louisiana. He grew up immersed and grounded in the black Creole tradition of southwest Louisiana and became a student of the old Creol...
Paul "Lil Buck" Sinegal, internationally known Blues and Zydeco guitarist and singer was born on Friday, January 14, 1944 in Lafayette, Louisiana. He was given the nickname "Lil Buck" because of his s...
Archie Bell, lead singer of Archie Bell & the Drells from Houston, Texas, was born on September 1, 1944 in Henderson, Texas. Archie Bell grew up in Houston, Texas in a household that included seven br...
Joseph Melvin Walker was born on Thursday, December 14, 1944 in Lafayette, Louisiana. An accomplished accordionist, guitarist and keyboardist with a powerful and unique gospel influenced voice, Joe Wa...
Joseph Adam Mouton, known to the Zydeco Nation as Zydeco Joe was born on October 25, 1943 in Lafayette, Louisiana. He was "raised up in Carencro" (as he sang in many of his songs), living on a farm gr...
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...
Fernest Arceneaux, lead accordionist for Fernest and the Thunders, was born on August 27, 1940 to a large sharecropping family based in Lafayette, Louisiana. He learned to play an accordion owned by h...
Albert “Little Smokey” Smothers was born on January 2, 1939, in Tchula, Mississippi, and began playing guitar at 15. Two years later, Smothers moved to Chicago and shortly after landed gigs with Arthu...
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...
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...