Terrance Simien and The Zydeco Experience

Terrance Simien is an icon of Zydeco music, full stop — a two-time Grammy winner who has spent more than 40 years bringing this vibrant, vital Black American roots music to audiences around the world. Driven by African and Caribbean rhythms, Zydeco has evolved from a traditional acoustic music of rural Louisiana Creole communities, into a genre that incorporates rock, funk, R&B, rap, and hip-hop. Terrance and the Zydeco Experience have always been at the evolving edge of Zydeco, cooking up an irresistible sound — with a hypnotic blend of New Orleans funk and brass, Zydeco roots music, flavors of reggae and blues, and tight vocal harmonies. “Simien is a Zydeco master: his voice yearning like Sam Cooke, he delivers soul worthy of Stax greats and shows crossover class” (Rolling Stone).