Kassav', the Glossary
Kassav', also alternatively spelled Kassav, is a French Caribbean band that originated from Guadeloupe in 1979.[1]
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65 relations: Admiral T, Africa, Antillean Creole, Asia, Bélé, Biguine, Cadence, Cadence rampa, Cadence-lypso, Calypsonian, Caribbean, Cassava, CBS Records International, Chouval bwa, Compas, Creole language, Dancehall, Dédé Saint Prix, Disco, Dominica, Edith Lefel, Epic Records, Europe, Exile One, Experience 7, French West Indies, Gramacks, Guadeloupe, Gwo ka, Haiti, Jazz, Jocelyne Béroard, Jocelyne Labylle, Kassav', Latin America, Les Aiglons, List of Caribbean idiophones, Majestik Zouk, Martinique, Mazurka, Méringue, MIDI, Music of Guadeloupe, Music of Martinique, Music of the Lesser Antilles, Paris, Patrick Saint-Éloi, Peter Gabriel, Philippe Lavil, Quadrille, ... Expand index (15 more) »
- 1979 establishments in Guadeloupe
- Guadeloupean musical groups
- Zouk musicians
Admiral T
Christy Campbell (born March 29, 1981), known by the stage name Admiral T, is a French singer, rapper, songwriter, DJ, and actor.
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
Antillean Creole
Antillean Creole (also known as Lesser Antillean Creole) is a French-based creole that is primarily spoken in the Lesser Antilles.
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Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.
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Bélé
A bélé is a folk dance and music from Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Martinique, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago.
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Biguine
Biguine (bigin) is a rhythmic dance and music style that originated from Saint-Pierre, Martinique in the 19th century.
Cadence
In Western musical theory, a cadence is the end of a phrase in which the melody or harmony creates a sense of full or partial resolution, especially in music of the 16th century onwards.Don Michael Randel (1999). The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians, pp. 105-106.. A harmonic cadence is a progression of two or more chords that concludes a phrase, section, or piece of music.
Cadence rampa
Cadence rampa (kadans ranpa), or simply kadans, is a dance music and modern méringue popularized in the Caribbean by the virtuoso Haitian sax player Webert Sicot in the early 1960s. Cadence rampa was one of the sources of cadence-lypso. Genres: Caribbean and Latin America. Cadence and compas are two names for the same Haitian modern méringue.
Cadence-lypso
Cadence-lypso is a fusion of cadence rampa from Haiti and calypso from Trinidad and Tobago that has also spread to other English speaking countries of the Caribbean.
Calypsonian
A calypsonian, originally known as a chantwell, is a musician from the anglophone Caribbean who sings songs of the calypso genre.
Caribbean
The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.
Cassava
Manihot esculenta, commonly called cassava, manioc,--> or yuca (among numerous regional names), is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to South America, from Brazil, Paraguay and parts of the Andes.
CBS Records International
CBS Records International was the international arm of the Columbia Records unit of Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
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Chouval bwa
Chouval bwa is a kind of folk music originated on the slave plantations of Martinique.
Compas
Compas, also known as compas direct in French, konpa dirèk in Haitian Creole, or simply konpa but most commonly as Kompa, is a modern méringue dance music genre of Haiti.
Creole language
A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable natural language that develops from the process of different languages simplifying and mixing into a new form (often a pidgin), and then that form expanding and elaborating into a full-fledged language with native speakers, all within a fairly brief period.
See Kassav' and Creole language
Dancehall
Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s.
Dédé Saint Prix
Dédé Saint Prix (born 10 February 1953) is a French singer from Martinique, performing traditional chouval bwa music.
See Kassav' and Dédé Saint Prix
Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene.
Dominica
Dominica (or; Dominican Creole French: Dominik; Kalinago: Waitukubuli), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean.
Edith Lefel
Edith Lefel (November 1963, in Cayenne, French Guiana - 20 January 2003, in Dreux, France) was a French singer.
Epic Records
Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Exile One
Exile One is a cadence musical group founded by Gordon Henderson in the 1970s with musicians invited over from Dominica, to be based in Guadeloupe.
Experience 7
Experience 7 was a Guadeloupean kadans band formed in the mid-1970s, led by Guy Houllier and Yves Honore. Kassav' and Experience 7 are Guadeloupean musical groups and zouk musicians.
French West Indies
The French West Indies or French Antilles (Antilles françaises,; Antiy fwansé) are the parts of France located in the Antilles islands of the Caribbean.
See Kassav' and French West Indies
Gramacks
Gramacks (or "Les Gramacks", also spelled with two Ms) was a cadence-lypso group from Dominica.
Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe (Gwadloup) is an overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean.
Gwo ka
Gwo ka is an Antillean Creole term for big drum.
Haiti
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas.
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
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Jocelyne Béroard
Jocelyne Béroard (born 12 September 1954) is a Martinican singer and songwriter. Kassav' and Jocelyne Béroard are zouk musicians.
See Kassav' and Jocelyne Béroard
Jocelyne Labylle
Jocelyne Labylle (born 1973 in Saint-Claude, Guadeloupe) is a Guadeloupean zouk musician.
See Kassav' and Jocelyne Labylle
Kassav'
Kassav', also alternatively spelled Kassav, is a French Caribbean band that originated from Guadeloupe in 1979. Kassav' and Kassav' are 1979 establishments in Guadeloupe, Guadeloupean musical groups, musical groups established in 1979 and zouk musicians.
Latin America
Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.
Les Aiglons
Les Aiglons was a 1970s Guadeloupean cadence band.
List of Caribbean idiophones
Historically, idiophones (percussion instruments without membranes or strings) have been widespread throughout the Caribbean music area, which encompasses the islands and coasts of the Caribbean Sea.
See Kassav' and List of Caribbean idiophones
Majestik Zouk
Majestik Zouk is an album by the French Caribbean music group Kassav'.
Martinique
Martinique (Matinik or Matnik; Kalinago: Madinina or Madiana) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea.
Mazurka
The Mazurka (Polish: mazurek) is a Polish musical form based on stylised folk dances in triple meter, usually at a lively tempo, with character defined mostly by the prominent mazur's "strong accents unsystematically placed on the second or third beat".
Méringue
Méringue (mereng), also called méringue lente or méringue de salon (slow or salon méringue), is a dance music and national symbol in Haiti.
MIDI
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communication protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices for playing, editing, and recording music.
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Music of Guadeloupe
The music of Guadeloupe encompasses a large popular music industry, which gained in international renown after the success of zouk music in the later 20th century.
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Music of Martinique
The music of Martinique has a heritage which is intertwined with that of its sister island, Guadeloupe.
See Kassav' and Music of Martinique
Music of the Lesser Antilles
The music of the Lesser Antilles encompasses the music of this chain of small islands making up the eastern and southern portion of the West Indies.
See Kassav' and Music of the Lesser Antilles
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
Patrick Saint-Éloi
Patrick Saint-Éloi (20 October 1958 – 18 September 2010) was a Guadeloupean singer and songwriter. Kassav' and Patrick Saint-Éloi are zouk musicians.
See Kassav' and Patrick Saint-Éloi
Peter Gabriel
Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, songwriter and human rights activist.
Philippe Lavil
Philippe Lavil (born 26 September 1947), pseudonym of Philippe Durand de La Villejégu du Fresnay, is a French singer.
See Kassav' and Philippe Lavil
Quadrille
The quadrille is a dance that was fashionable in late 18th- and 19th-century Europe and its colonies.
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.
Saint-Pierre, Martinique
Saint-Pierre (Martinican Creole: Senpiè) is a town and commune of France's Caribbean overseas department of Martinique, founded in 1635 by Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc.
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SNEP
SNEP (Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique, in English National Syndicate of Phonographic Publishing) is the inter-professional organisation that protects the interests of the French record industry.
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Sonodisc
Sonodisc (a contraction for Société nouvelle de distribution de disques), or simply spelled SonoDisc, was a French record label established in 1970 by former Ngoma's staff members Marcel Perse and Michel David in Paris.
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris (Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer.
Synthesizer
A synthesizer (also synthesiser, or simply synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals.
Tabou Combo
Tabou Combo is a Haitian compas band that was founded in 1968 in Pétion-Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince.
Techno
Techno is a genre of electronic dance music which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempos being in the range of 120 to 150 beats per minute (BPM).
Vini Pou
Vini Pou is an album by the Guadeloupean band Kassav', released in 1987.
Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group Corp., commonly abbreviated as WMG, is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City.
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Worldbeat
Worldbeat is a music genre that blends pop music or rock music with world music or traditional music.
Yélélé
Yélélé is a 1984 zouk album of Kassav'.
Zénith Paris
Zénith Paris (originally known as Zénith de Paris,; and commonly referred to as Le Zénith) is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Paris, France.
Zouk
Zouk is a musical movement pioneered by the French Antillean band Kassav' in the early 1980s.
See Kassav' and Zouk
See also
1979 establishments in Guadeloupe
- Kassav'
Guadeloupean musical groups
- Experience 7
- Kassav'
- Zouk Machine
Zouk musicians
- Celma Ribas
- Experience 7
- Fanny J
- Francky Vincent
- Gilyto
- Jocelyne Béroard
- Joelma (singer)
- Kaoma
- Kassav'
- Les Déesses
- Lynnsha
- Mario Chicot
- Mika Mendes
- Nedy Music
- Oliver N'Goma
- Patrick Saint-Éloi
- Soumia
- Stacy (zouk singer)
- Suzanna Lubrano
- Willy William
- Zouk Machine
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassav'
Also known as George Decimus, Jacob Desvarieux, Kassav, Pierre-Edouard Décimus.
, Reggae, Saint-Pierre, Martinique, SNEP, Sonodisc, Soviet Union, Stevie Wonder, Synthesizer, Tabou Combo, Techno, Vini Pou, Warner Music Group, Worldbeat, Yélélé, Zénith Paris, Zouk.