| Growing up, he listened to the up-tempo sounds of calypso, soca, and zouk, before moving to St Maarten and discovering reggae. |
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| A variety of American pop genres are mixed now with zouk, rhi, and jit from Africa, salsa from the Caribbean, and Indian bhangra. |
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| Funk, soul, hip hop, brokenbeat, jazz, dancehall, roots, old-school, deep house, zouk and konpa can be found here every week, so check it out. |
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| They've been gigging downtown with their mix of funk, zouk and reggae for a while, so don't miss them on the big stage. |
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| For openers, there was the French ensemble Les Alizes, playing zouk on steel. |
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| Combette's music is hard to describe concisely, but there's Haitian compas, zouk, folk, jazz, bossa nova, soca and reggae in the mix. |
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| Trinidad reverberates to soca, and Martinique to the racing double beat of zouk. |
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| In other recorded examples the music most closely approaches early predecessors of reggae and zouk. |
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| Haitian sensation Black Parents will also be performing, bringing some zouk and kompas with the holiday vibes. |
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| Hints of zouk, samba and electroclash rear their groovy heads through a parade of infectious Afro-housers. |
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| Over three days and nights, popular Creole musical forms such as cadence-lypso, compass, zouk, soukous, and bouyon ring out alongside Creole-influenced reggae and soca. |
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| Thus the zouk supergroup Kassav' was born and a new life began for Saint-Eloi, who got to sing on the group's debut album. |
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| Learning by the old school method of live shows got her off of doing playback which is largely practised in the zouk milieu. |
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| The neighboring French islands Martinique and Guadeloupe specialize in zouk and compas music, both locally made and imported from Haiti. |
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| It's got a really fast beat like techno or Brazilian batucadas and the vocals are placed offbeat almost like zouk. |
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| Besides the variety, reggae, raga and rap and zouk, reunionese music presents two styles of its own: Maloya and Sega. |
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| The album pulsated with a perfect fusion of zouk and salsa rhythms and featured some very interesting re-workings of Kassav's greatest hits. |
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| Kassav, the zouk group par excellence, which invented zouk, has become a living legend. |
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| The French Antillean Creole term zouk was first used on the islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique to refer to nightlong dance parties. |
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| Within this community zouk emerged as an emblem of cultural pride, owing first and foremost to the music's use of Creole lyrics. |
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| Nevertheless, zouk continued to be strongly identified with the French Antilles in the early 21st century despite its cosmopolitan character. |
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| The collective label for the various types of Caribbean music played at such parties was mizik zouk. |
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| Yes, exactly, before zouk took off in the Antilles our music scene was dominated by Haitian sounds. |
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| The Kassav machine had everyone in the world on zouk, whether in the United States, Japan, or Europe. |
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| Each of our songs has its own musical flavour, be it merengue, zouk, calypso or raggaton. |
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| So we used our different personalities to present the varying facets of zouk music. |
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| A delightful fusion of zouk, reggae, Afro-Beat and salsa, the multi-cultural personnel of the Bristol-based six-piece band, provide the ingredients to a very agreeable recipe. |
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| In Africa, they had a huge success: Creole artists came to sing more and more on the continent and Africans created their own « afro zouk » music. |
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| Edith certainly lived up to her namesake that night as she took to the stage with her faithful zouk accomplices Ralph Tamar and Jean-Luc Alger and blew the audience away with some amazing vocals. |
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| Younger people in Martinique and Guadeloupe at the turn of the 21st century were less likely to know the varieties of social dances or music that their parents enjoyed, preferring zouk, for example, over beguine. |
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| In zouk music the rhythm was usually carried by the hi-hat cymbals. |
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| This ultra-danceable cocktail went on to take the French West Indies by storm, paving the way for the zouk craze to emerge in Martinique and Guadeloupe. |
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| Edith certainly went on to live up to her name, causing what can only be described as a seismic reaction when she exploded onto the international music scene in her 20s and staked her claim to join the clan of new zouk divas. |
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| Popular genres of modern commercial music, which are currently being played in the urban areas include zouk music and reggaeton. |
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| The band delivers fresh approaches to standard zouk rhythms that never sound formulaic. |
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| For French Antilleans zouk spoke back not only to cultural and political domination by France but also to musical domination by genres from other regions of the Caribbean. |
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| When I travel abroad in mainland France or elsewhere on the continent and I see people swinging their hips to our rhythms I'm happy to see that zouk appeals to such a huge public outside the Creole community. |
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| This was when Kassav began writing the history of zouk. |
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| The band formed in 2006 and their blend of punk and techno with African zouk and kuduro styles has seen them credited with kick-starting their own genre. |
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| Samer Salty and Andrew Whiting of Zouk Capital will join the board and support the management team in taking the company to the next level. |
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