Musikern Buckwheat Zydeco död – blev 68 år

Stanley Dural, Jr. (November 14, 1947 – September 24, 2016), better known by his stage name Buckwheat Zydeco, was an American accordionist and zydeco musician. He was one of the few zydeco artists to achieve mainstream success. His music group was formally billed as Buckwheat Zydeco and Ils Sont Partis Band, but they often performed as merely Buckwheat Zydeco. The New York Times said: “Stanley ‘Buckwheat’ Dural leads one of the best bands in America. A down-home and high-powered celebration, meaty and muscular with a fine-tuned sense of dynamics…propulsive rhythms, incendiary performances.” USA Today called him “a zydeco trailblazer.” Buckwheat Zydeco performed with a large number of famous musicians from Eric Clapton (with whom he also recorded) and U2 to the Boston Pops. The band performed at the closing ceremonies of the 1996 Summer Olympics to a worldwide audience of three billion people. Buckwheat performed for President Clinton twice, celebrating both of his inaugurations. The band appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, CNN, The Today Show, MTV, NBC News, CBS Morning News, and National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition.

Zydeco är en folkmusikstil med ursprung i sydvästra Louisiana på 1920-talet. Den är en vidareutveckling av cajunmusiken med afro-amerikanska förtecken. Karakteristiska instrument inom zydeco är dragspel och tvättbräda, ackompanjerat av gitarr, bas och trummor. Bland mer namnkunniga artister finns namn som Clifton Chenier, Rockin' Dopsie, Queen Ida, Bozoo Chavis och Steve Riley.