Colé Van Dais, An Artist
Colé Van Dais lists her inspirations as ‘My inner voice, my heart, my mother, The Universe’. These inspirations have certainly helped her achieve great success. The multi-talented and beautiful South African si...
The New-Age Nina Simone, Nasimiyu Murumba
Beautiful and young, the singer and songwriter Nasimiyu Murumba inspires many music lovers with her eclectic mixture of songs. Snarky Puppy’s Mike League even called her “the New Age Nina Simone”.
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Goldman Thibodeaux received the Folklife Heritage Award from Louisiana Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne
Goldman Thibodeaux is nominated for the Folklife Heritage Award for his untiring dedication to maintaining and promoting traditional Creole music, often referred to as "LaLa music." Having grown up in the Opelo...
Delhi 2 Dublin – A Collision of World Music
There is a musical styling out there for everyone, and there is no hard and fast set of rules that states musicians must adhere to one genre or another. Artists are constantly branching out from their comfort z...
Chubby Carrier – Big Talent from the Bayou
Chubby Carrier As the leader of his band Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band, Carrier continues to tour and attract new fans to the music he has known and loved his whole life.
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Luther Francois – The Godfather of Jazz in St. Lucia
When younger generations around the world look at their favorite artists from various musical genres, they no doubt view one person or another as the standard bearer for that genre. All too often however, casua...
Trombone Shorty – Who calls the “Big Easy” home
Deep in the heart of America's Creole culture is the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. As the largest city in the home state of Creole in America, New Orleans has long been the centre of exchange between numerous...
Christine Salem – Envoûte le New York Times
Christine Salem est l’une des rares voix féminines du maloya, la musique traditionnelle de La Réunion héritée des esclaves et dépourvue d’instrument harmonique. Et quelle voix. Elle a beau chanter en créole, en...
R Kelly – The Ride of His Life
R Kelly is best-known for his song-writing, singing, and producing, yet is now adding authorship to his impressive list of credentials. This is a book, titled "Soulacoaster", that details Kelly's life from his ...
Grace Barbe – An Emerging Star in World of Music
The best musicians in the world are not always the ones with the largest profile, the most albums, or the highest income each year. There are musicians that are more entertainers at heart with mediocre musical ...
Keith Frank – Zydeco King
The musical greats all have their stories about how music took root in their lives. For Keith Frank, his induction into the world of Zydeco happened right at home as he was trying to get out of chores for his f...
Rob Curto & Matuto – Beat the devil with their joyful music
Rob Curto and his band Matuto named their recent album ‘The Devil and the Diamond’, because of the conflict between ‘the desire to move forward and create happiness’, and the yearning of people to be ‘lazy and ...
Opera Créole – Preserving and Promoting Creole Music in Louisiana
The true testament to the greatness of any culture is not in the might of its economy, the size of its population, or the height of its tallest buildings. Rather, the greatest measure of any culture is the arts...
The King of One String
Raised by his grandmother in a poor Jamaican environment, Andrew Chin didn’t appear to have much opportunity for a life of fame. But a vision presented to him when he was a child and foretold him of a future fa...
Joe Samy – “the soul of the island”
Not every artist in popular cultures is the person we make them out to be as fans. Many of the hugely successful musicians in the world are nothing more than a mouthpiece for other people, singing music they di...