Frémeaux
BIGUINE & MERENGUE: 1956-59
$20.99
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Details
- Composer
- VARIOUS
- Artist
- B. Coppet, H. Coppet
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Frémeaux
- Released
- Jan 01, 2014
- Catalog #
- FA5408
- UPC
- 3561302540825
About
In 1955 France discovered the merengue, a new dance that was all the rage in America. Singer Gerard La Viny, who ran the famous West Indian cabaret ‘La Canne A Sucre’ in Paris, brought the dance back from Saint-Domingue… and two brothers from Martinique, Barel & Honore Coppet, adapted its rhythm into a Creole style to make it one of the most popular dances of the French Caribbean. Jean-Pierre MEUNIER