Clifton_CHENIER

 CLIFTON CHENIER 

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 C.J. CHENIER 

DISCOGRAPHY 1965-2013 (34CD/DVD)

 CLIFTON CHENIER 

        

Clifton Chenier (June 25, 1925 – December 12, 1987), a Louisiana French-speaking native of Opelousas, Louisiana, was an eminent performer and recording artist of Zydeco, which arose from Cajun and Creole music, with R&B, jazz, and blues influences.

He played the accordion and won a Grammy Award in 1983. In 1984 he was honored as a National Heritage Fellow. He was inducted posthumously into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1989, and the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2011.

In 2014, he was a Grammy recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award. He was known as the 'King of Zydeco', and also billed as the 'King of the South'....

 C.J. CHENIER 

        

C.J. Chenier (born Clayton Joseph Thompson, September 28, 1957, Port Arthur, Texas) is the Creole son of the Grammy Award-winning "King of Zydeco", Louisiana musician, Clifton Chenier.

In 1987, Chenier followed in his father's footsteps, and led his father's band as an accordion performer and singer of zydeco, a blend of cajun and creole music.

With five previous albums to his credit, by 1994, Chenier began to record for Chicago-based Alligator Records.

Chenier grew up in the 1960s, in the housing projects of his native Port Arthur, Texas. There, Chenier was aware of, but not exposed to his father's music as a young child, and had not heard the word Zydeco until later in his youth. Instead, Chenier developed tastes in the 1970s soul, funk and jazz music of James Brown, Funkadelic, John Coltrane and Miles Davis.....