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Wayne Toups (born October 2, 1958, in Crowley, Louisiana) is one of the most commercially successful American Cajun singers. [2] He is also a songwriter. Wayne Toups has been granted numerous awards and honors throughout his career including 2010 Festivals Acadiens et Créoles dedicated in his name, Offbeat Magazine Album of the Year recipient.
Doug Kershaw. Doug Kershaw playing the fiddle at the 2009 Festivals Acadiens et Créoles. Douglas James Kershaw (born January 24, 1936 [1] [2]) is an American fiddle player, singer and songwriter from Louisiana. Active since 1948, he began his career as part of the duo Rusty and Doug, along with his brother, Rusty Kershaw.
A Cajun diatonic accordion. Cajun music ( French: Musique cadienne ), an emblematic music of Louisiana played by the Cajuns, is rooted in the ballads of the French-speaking Acadians of Canada. Although they are two separate genres, Cajun music is often mentioned in tandem with the Creole -based zydeco music.
Jo-El Sonnier was born to French-speaking sharecroppers in Rayne, Louisiana, on October 2, 1946. [1] [2] [3] At age three, he began to play his brother's accordion. By age six, Sonnier had performed on the radio; at age 11, he made his first recordings. [4] He also released several independent singles and four albums as a teenager. [4]
Other Cajun musicians playing non-Cajun music. Johnnie Allan, swamp pop musician; Rod Bernard, swamp pop musician; John Fred, swamp pop & rock and roll musician; Sammy Kershaw, country music artist; Warren Storm, swamp pop musician; Rufus Thibodeaux, Cajun and country music artist (fiddler)
Fiddle, vocals. Years active. 2001–present. Labels. Rounder. Website. amandashaw.com. Amanda Christian Amaya-Shaw (born August 2, 1990) [1] is an American Cajun fiddler and singer from Mandeville, Louisiana. She was inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2020.
1950s, Acadiana region, Louisiana, United States. Swamp pop is a music genre indigenous to the Acadiana region of south Louisiana and an adjoining section of southeast Texas. Created in the 1950s by young Cajuns and Creoles, it combines New Orleans –style rhythm and blues, country and western, and traditional French Louisiana musical influences.
Rod Bernard (August 12, 1940 [2] – July 12, 2020) [3] was an American singer who helped to pioneer the musical genre known as "swamp pop", which combined New Orleans-style rhythm and blues, country and western, and Cajun and black Creole music. He is generally considered one of the foremost musicians of this south Louisiana-east Texas idiom ...