Joseph Roy Carrier, leader of Roy Carrier & the Night Rockers died on May 4, 2010 at 12:15am of a heart attack at the age of 63 at the Opelousas General Hospital in Opelousas, Louisiana.
Joseph Roy Carrier, leader of Roy Carrier & the Night Rockers died on May 4, 2010 at 12:15am of a heart attack at the age of 63 at the Opelousas General Hospital in Opelousas, Louisiana. His black Creole roots ran deep as the Carrier family became on of the most influential families in the black Creole music tradition in Southwest Louisiana and Texas...a tradition that Roy Carrier stayed true as he never veered from the the traditional Creole "La La" style pioneered by members of his family like pioneering Creole fiddler Joseph Bébé Carriére and Calvin Carriére and the Zydeco Blues style of the King of Zydeco, Clifton Chenier. His deep grounding in and understanding of the black Creole Culture of southwest Louisiana and Texas help shape and influence several generations of new Zydeco and Creole musicians whom personally mentored through his weekly free Sunday jam sessions at his Offshore Lounge in Lawtell, Louisiana. He is buried at the Holy Family Catholic Church Cemetery in Lawtell, Louisiana.