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Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement Award: Floyd Soileau

January 1, 2001 by: Herman Fuselier

Can Cajun French music survive in a new millennium? Floyd Soileau of Ville Platte, who has recorded, produced and distributed the sound for 43 years, approaches the question with hopeful concern. Soileau says Cajun music remains popular, if not flooded with too many releases. But he wonders if the French language will keep pace with the two-stepping rhythms. "Evelyn Goller told me that we need to put on our label ‘Keep Cajun French alive with music’," said Soile...

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