Michael Doucet
Cajun music, Musical Artist
1951 –
Who is Michael Doucet?
Michael Doucet is an American Cajun fiddler, singer and songwriter who founded the Cajun band BeauSoleil from Lafayette, Louisiana.
In 2005 Doucet was one of 12 recipients of the National Heritage Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts. The NEA award, which recognizes artistic excellence, cultural authenticity and an artist's contributions, is the highest honor in U.S. folk and traditional arts. Doucet received Grammy Awards in both 1998 and 2009 for work with Beausoleil.
He was named a 2007 USA Collins Family Foundation Fellow and awarded a $50,000 grant by United States Artists, a public charity that supports and promotes the work of American artists. In 2008, he released From Now On, his solo cajun fiddle album, on Smithsonian Folkways.
He learned the banjo by age six, the guitar by his eighth year, and was researching Cajun music as a college student. In his youth he performed as part of a duo at a music festival in France. At the festival he was exposed to centuries-old French music, which he identified with the Cajun music of French Louisiana. He played mandolin on his old Rounder album, Le Hoogie Boogie.
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- Born
- Feb 14, 1951
Scott - Also known as
- Doucet, Michael
- Doucet
- Spouses
- Ethnicity
- Cajun
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Louisiana State University
- Employment
- University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- Lived in
- Louisiana
- Lafayette
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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