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R&B singer, pianist, songwriter and bandleader from the Shrewbury section of New Orleans. n 1946 he entered and won a talent contest at the Dew Drop Inn, one of New Orleans premier nightclubs, and more significantly gained a profile as an up-coming performer as a result

Pierre Dewey LaFontaine Jr., AKA Pete Fountain, was a jazz clarinetist, born in a small Creole cottage-style frame house on White Street (between Dumaine Street and St. Ann Street) in New Orleans.

Pioneering New Orleans blues and jazz singer, guitarist, banjoist, violinist and pianist. Known for being the first to record in a single-note soloing guitar style with string bending and vibrato.

The House of the Rising Sun was a real brothel in New Orleans

Clarence Henry II, AKA Clarence "Frogman" Henry

Toussaint was born in 1938 in New Orleans and grew up in a shotgun house in the Gert Town neighborhood, where his mother, Naomi Neville (whose name he later adopted pseudonymously for some of his works), welcomed and fed all manner of musicians as they practiced and recorded with her son.

Featuring the voice of legendary New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian chief, Monk Boudreaux, an African-American musician and Big Chief of the Golden Eagles, a Mardi Gras Indian tribe. He is widely known for his long-time collaboration with Big Chief Bo Dollis in The Wild Magnolias.

Tami Lynn grew up singing gospel in New Orleans, and was discovered in the early 60s by bandleader Alvin Tyler. In addition to her own releases, she sang backup on King Floyd recordings.

Henry Roeland Byrd, better known as Professor Longhair, or "Fess", was an American singer and pianist who performed New Orleans blues. He was active in two distinct periods, first in the heyday of early rhythm and blues and later in the resurgence of interest in traditional jazz after the founding of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 1970. His piano style has been described as "instantly recognizable, combining rumba, mambo, and calypso"

New Orleans pianist and blues/Boogie-woogie singer who started out as a boxer He was a barrelhouse "professor" at a juke joint. His father was from the Belgian Congo and his mother was part African American and Cherokee.

Lead singer and trumpeter of New Birth Brass Band. Older brother of Troy Andrews, AKA Trombone Shorty.

New Orleans Jazz trumpeter

R&B songwriter and pianist, born January 26, 1934 in New Orleans, Louisiana - died February 13, 2023. He became a regular performer at the Dew Drop Inn in New Orleans, and had several chart successes during the 1950s and '60s.

accordionist and zydeco performer

Founded in 1983 by former classmates who attended Phillip "Tuba Phil" Frazier, his brother Keith Frazier, Kermit Ruffins, who attended Joseph S. Clark Senior High School, which closed in the spring of 2018, in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans.

New Orleans artist who started out on trombone, he formed a band which local DJ Doctor Daddy-O named "The Chapaka Shawee" (Creole for "We Aren’t Raccoons"). Author of the classic "Iko Iko" (initially called "Jockomo") in 1954. Although his song became a standard, Crawford disappeared from public view, and in a 2002 interview, told how his career came to an abrupt halt in 1963 after a severe beating which incapacitated him for two years forcing him to leave the music business.

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