In the history of popular and vernacular music it is usually hard to pinpoint the genesis of a new genre or style on one particular individual. Many musicologists acknowledge today that blacks in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chenier in 1984. The zydeco pioneer would have turned 100 this year. - Credit: Paul Natkin/Getty Images A few months ago, Joel ...

Clifton Chenier mixed accordion music with R%26B%2C blues and jazz%2C introducing world to zydeco Chenier won a Grammy in 1983 and was inducted into the 2011 Grammy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clifton Chenier performs at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on May 4, 1983. (Credit: David Redfern/Redferns) Joel Savoy ...

In 1985 artist George Rodrigue painted the great musician Clifton Chenier (1925-1987). At the time, Chenier was world-famous, crowned a Grammy Award winner in 1983, and summoned everywhere from San ...

One hundred years after his birth, Clifton Chenier is ready for his close-up. Three high-profile projects, in the works for years, commemorate the 100th anniversary of the King of Zydeco’s birth near ...

Clifton Chenier Centennial. In this centennial year of the birth of Clifton Chenier, many events and projects are celebrating the zydeco music pioneer and his international impact. Wednesday, June 25, ...

A few months ago, Joel Savoy, the Louisiana Cajun musician and label owner, was at a local pressing plant looking over the cover art for a just-finished tribute album to zydeco legend Clifton Chenier.