A new mural was unveiled in Sunset celebrating the lasting impact of the Chenier brothers on Zydeco music. The artwork honors ...

A few months ago, Joel Savoy, the Louisiana Cajun musician and label owner, was at a local pressing plant looking over the cover art for a just-finished tribute album to zydeco legend Clifton Chenier.

Sunset's newest mural honoring zydeco legends Clifton and Cleveland Chenier and their connection to the Rubboard Capitol of ...

There was a special presentation Thursday morning to commemorate the Clifton Chenier Memorial Scholarship/Endowment.

The Rolling Stones are once again waving the flag of their musical forebears with a cover of Clifton Chenier’s zydeco tune “Zydeco Sont Pas Salés.” Chenier, an accordionist and singer who would have ...

A new scholarship at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette is set to honor the legacy of Zydeco legend Clifton Chenier.

Clifton Chenier, the "king of zydeco," was honored Saturday, January 25 with a lifetime achievement award at the 2014 Grammys' Special Merit Awards ceremony. (Arhoolie Records) Zydeco king Clifton ...

When you're known as the King of Zydeco music, like the late Clifton Chenier was, it only makes sense that other recording legends would want to honor you. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ZYDECO SONT PAS SALES") ...

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 ...

In some ways, the lawsuit filed against C.J. Chenier by the heirs of zydeco musician Clifton Chenier is a matter of setting the record straight as at least one of the 22 plaintiffs sees it. "It's ...

A suit filed by the heirs of Clifton Chenier against C.J. Chenier in the 15th Judicial District Court alleges, among other things, that the King of Zydeco was medically unable to have any biological ...

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 ...