Please, someone, help me with this. In the video, Beau Jocque said that he grew up and spoke Cajun French. I thought he was a creole that spoke creole French 🇫🇷. Was he a creole or cajun? I'm listening to him sing in this video, and his french does sound more cajun. Was his miss speaking? Because he said this twice in the video. I apologize for my ignorance, but I thought Most French-speaking people of color from Louisiana were creoles. I live in Florida but I have a few creole friends from Slidell, Louisiana.
@@stevecollinsjr4 ok Im learning more but there are some Cajuns that don’t feel that way. I have seen where a Cajun was speaking Kouri vini and the Creoles were calling him Creole because of his use of “Mo Gain” which is of the Kouri vini. The term Mo does not come up in Louisiana French or standard French from France 🇫🇷 A Cajun jumped online and said that he knows the guy and that he would be offended if you called him Creole. He also said that some Cajuns use the term as well. Some would get offended because the use of creole term today is referred to people of color that speak French is southwest Louisiana. We know that this is false because I have heard whites speak Kouri vini.
@@darioussmith3450 Not sure ya need to ask but a simple internet search 'n Wikipedia result would've given ya the answer: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beau_Jocque
Wow I have been looking for a copy of this speech for awhile, it seems this is the only copy on the internet with intact audio. Well done sir, you managed to capture history.
They call me beaujocque when i play i sound like him my vice i knew him back in the day i was in high school when we would listen to his music would go and see him play his drummer would come by my house when i would play on my drums and beau had ask me if i wonted to play some times for him i said yes but my mom said no when i was 20 i went ware he was playing and he let me play for songs on his accordion he was a good man rip beau miss you
Thank you, Rontree Mouton for your moving comments about your influence from and time with Beau Jocque. I had the pleasure of dancing many times to Beau Jocque and The High Rollers, in many venues in Louisiana, including the 1995 Plaissance Zydeco Festival when Beau entered the scene from a coffin on the stage. I first heard him in a showdown with Boozoo in Washington DC, and another time at Rock-N-Bowl, when Rosie Ladet, in a referee costume, officiated over the battle for King of Zydeco. When I learned that Beau had suffered a heart attack, I called his mother to express my concern, and when he died, I cried long, deep, and heart-felt tears. God Bless Beau and you, young man. You keep Beau's music alive !
