Roy Carrier Dies of a Heart Attack
Zydeco Nation's "Living Legend" Transitions Today at 12:15am.
May 4, 2010
by Rod Sias
www.ZydecoOnline.com
Uniting The Zydeco Nation
One of the Zydeco Nation's elder statesmen, Joseph Roy Carrier died on May 4, 2010 at 12:15am of a heart attack at the age of 63 at the Opelousas General Hospital in Opelousas, Louisiana.
Mr. Carrier had been diagnosed with lung cancer in December 2009 and had undergone kidney dialysis treatment, removal of a blood clot from his leg, and had recently suffered from pneumonia.
Joseph Roy Carrier was born on February 11, 1947 to a sharecropper family in Lawtell-Opelousas area in rural southwest Louisiana. His black Creole roots ran deep as the Carrier family became on of the most influential families in the black Creole music tradition in Southwest Louisiana and Texas...a tradition that Roy Carrier stayed true as he never veered from the the traditional Creole "La La" style pioneered by members of his family like pioneering Creole fiddler Joseph Bébé Carriére and Calvin Carriére and the Zydeco Blues style of the King of Zydeco, Clifton Chenier. His deep grounding in and understanding of the black Creole Culture of southwest Louisiana and Texas help shape and influence several generations of new Zydeco and Creole musicians whom personally mentored through his weekly free Sunday jam sessions at his Offshore Lounge in Lawtell, Louisiana.
Zydeco Nation's "Living Legend" Transitions Today at 12:15am.
May 4, 2010
by Rod Sias
www.ZydecoOnline.com
Uniting The Zydeco Nation
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Joseph Roy Carrier
"Zydeco Living Legend"
(February 11, 1947 - May 4, 2010)
Rest In Peace
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Mr. Carrier had been diagnosed with lung cancer in December 2009 and had undergone kidney dialysis treatment, removal of a blood clot from his leg, and had recently suffered from pneumonia.
Joseph Roy Carrier was born on February 11, 1947 to a sharecropper family in Lawtell-Opelousas area in rural southwest Louisiana. His black Creole roots ran deep as the Carrier family became on of the most influential families in the black Creole music tradition in Southwest Louisiana and Texas...a tradition that Roy Carrier stayed true as he never veered from the the traditional Creole "La La" style pioneered by members of his family like pioneering Creole fiddler Joseph Bébé Carriére and Calvin Carriére and the Zydeco Blues style of the King of Zydeco, Clifton Chenier. His deep grounding in and understanding of the black Creole Culture of southwest Louisiana and Texas help shape and influence several generations of new Zydeco and Creole musicians whom personally mentored through his weekly free Sunday jam sessions at his Offshore Lounge in Lawtell, Louisiana.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR JOSEPH ROY CARRIER ARE AS FOLLOWS:
WAKE SERVICES ROY CARRIER WILL BE HELD ON
MONDAY, MAY 10, 2010
AT
ST. ANN'S CATHOLIC CHURCH
MALLET, LOUISIANA
5:00pm - 10:00pm (Wake)
FUNERAL FOR ROY CARRIER WILL BE HELD ON
TUESDAY, MAY 11, 2010
AT
HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH
LAWTELL, LOUISIANA
8:00am 10:00am (Viewing)
11:00am (Funeral Service)
BURIAL WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE
HOLY FAMILY CHURCH GROUNDS
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Photo Credit: T.J. Huntley-All Eyes On You Photo Studio
Joseph Roy Carrier
"Zydeco Living Legend"
(February 11, 1947 - May 4, 2010)
Rest In Peace
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