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[blackbrownfamily]

MADAGASCAR PEOPLE

[lesserknownwaifus]

zouk mother from zouk

[gillianthecat]

Iago Hassuike (leading) and Felipe Lira (following) dancing lambada.

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[fidjiefidjie]

Bon Soir 🆕️🎈🎷🎸💟

Yusan & Jocelyne Béroard 🎶 Mawonnen San Viza

(Bayo)

[gravalicious]

Méguy Esaïe - Kryé Mwen

[fuchinobe]

(1987, Not On Label, L.P. 535) Rare private press in conjunction with Cabo Verde Airlines (TACV).

[utomherten]

Zouk Machine - Maldòn (Official HD Video)

[mkmradio]

📢 GRAND ÉVÉNEMENT SUR MKM RADIO ! 📢

🌟 L'Univers Jean-Philippe Marthely : Hommage à une légende du Zouk ! 🌟 Le dimanche 20 octobre 2024 à 19h00, rejoignez-nous sur MKM Radio pour une immersion dans le répertoire exceptionnel de Jean-Philippe Marthely. Redécouvrez ses plus grands tubes comme "Rété" et "Souskay", et vibrez au rythme de ses mélodies inoubliables. 🎶

💥 60 minutes de musique et d'anecdotes exclusives sur cet artiste incontournable, dont l'empreinte dans l’histoire du Zouk reste indélébile.

👉 Soyez de la partie ! Écoutez-nous sur www.mkmradio.com ou téléchargez l’application MKM Radio si vous ne l’avez pas encore. Ne ratez pas cet hommage unique !

🔗 Partagez et restez connectés ! @MKMRadio #JeanPhilippeMarthely #ZoukIcon #MKMRadio

[zoukbachata]

Zouk Partner Dance - Erola Pons & team

[blackbrownfamily]

TEMS 🎼❗💯

[phantomoftheradio]

🦋 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙁𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝘼 𝙎𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙧 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙫𝙤𝙡.3 A very late (and a very personal) summer selection full of 70/80’s groovy sounds … from Italian movie soundtracks to obscure Disco anthems mixed up with Tropical gems from Guadeloupe, Antilles, Cabo Verde, some weird french covers, a lebanese reggae song and other « interesting » less known music from all over the world ! + of course … the usual melting pot of stupid movie dialogs , crazy interviews, phone pranks and bad jokes. Listen to vol.1 : Djnobreakfast – Themes-from-a-summer-place Listen to vol.2 : Djnobreakfast – Themes-from-a-summer-place-vol2 Listen to vol.3 : Djnobreakfast - Themes-from-a-summer-place-vol3 📡 Thanks to all the radio stations : Radio Alhara راديو الحارة 🇵🇸 Bethlehem Campus FM 🇫🇷 Toulouse Pigalle Paris Radio 🇫🇷 Paris Internet Public Radio 🇲🇽 Guadalajara Zanj Radio 🇯🇲 Kingston Radio Karantina راديو كرنتينا 🇱🇧 Beirut

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Walter Fernades (leading) and Felipe Lira (following) dancing Brazilian Zouk.

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Zouk Machine - Ou Ké Rivé 

[boricuacherry-blog]

He added, "Without being politicians or activists, Kassav' carried it all. From our faces to the themes in our songs, everything was very clear: We were West Indian, there should be no mistake, we wanted to mark our difference."

One of his bands in the 1970s, Zulu Gang, included musicians from Cameroon. Mr. Desvarieux also worked with the Cameroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango, who had the international hit "Soul Makossa."

In 1979, in Paris, Mr. Desvarieux met Pierre-Edouard Decimus, a musician from Guadeloupe with an ambitious concept for a new band: strongly rooted in the West Indies but reaching outward. "We were looking to find a soundtrack that synthesized all the traditions and previous sounds, but that could be exported everywhere," Mr. Desvarieux said.

Kassav' was named after a Guadeloupean dish, a cassava-flour pancake, and also after ka, a drum. A zouk was a dance party, and a 1984 hit by Mr. Desvarieux, "Zouk-La-Se-Sel Medikaman Nou Ni" ("Zouk Is the Only Medicine We Have"), made the word zouk synonymous with the band's style.

In Luanda, the capital of Angola, there is a museum of zouk, La Maison du Zouk, that has a collection of 10,000 albums. Mr. Desvarieux and Pierre-Edouard Decimus attended its opening in 2012.

Throughout the band's career, even after Kassav' was signed to multinational labels and encouraged to sing in English, the band's lyrics were always in French Antilles Creole, insisting on its island heritage.

"The music is a stronger language than the language itself," Mr. Desvarieux said in 1986.