Music fans celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of the King of Zydeco, Clifton Chenier, late last month. Chenier (June 25, 1925 -- December 12, 1987) was a pioneering musician from Opelousas, ...

ST. LANDRY PARISH, La. (KLFY) –Clifton Chenier, known as the “King of Zydeco” and is the only Zydeco artist to win the lifetime achievement award at the Grammy’s, is honored with a celebration. As the ...

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 ...

C.J. Chenier thinks the last time he played Houston's Juneteenth celebration was in the 1980s, when he was a young saxophonist learning zydeco while on the job. His teacher was his father, Clifton ...

After 33 seasons as color commentator on Washington Bullets/Wizards games, Phil Chenier will soon move on to a new role. The Washington Post’s Dan Steinberg reported Thursday that this will be Chenier ...

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 ...

Following one year of no gigs and a second year of many fewer gigs than normal, zydeco musician C.J. Chenier hopes the shows popping up on his concert calendar this year will stick. “Things are coming ...

Chenier left without comment on the charges against her. Chenier worked for the City of Chicago but on Tuesday, she appeared in federal court. Chenier is accused of embezzling more than $700,000 ...

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 ...

On Tuesday, September 12, Phil Chenier made a trip to Capital One Arena, the same arena he traveled to for the past two decades as the Wizards’ television color analyst. But on this day, he went there ...