Roy "Chubby" Carrier is an American

zydeco Zydeco ( or , french: Zarico) is a music genre that evolved in southwest Louisiana by French Creole speakers which blends blues, rhythm and blues, and music indigenous to the Louisiana Creoles and the Native American people of Louisiana. Al ...

musician. He is the leader of

Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band Chubby Carrier And The Bayou Swamp Band is a Zydeco band from Louisiana founded by Chubby Carrier in 1989. Awards Chubby Carrier And The Bayou Swamp Band have a Grammy award for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album for their album Zydeco Junkie. A ...

Biography

Carrier's father and grandfather both played zydeco music, and his cousins recorded under the name The Carrier Brothers. He was taught to play

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

by his father, Roy Carrier Sr., and played with his father's band at age 12, first on accordion and then on drums. By age 17, he played drums with

Terrance Simien Terrance Simien (born September 3, 1965) is an American zydeco musician, vocalist and songwriter. He and his group The Zydeco Experience won the Grammy Award for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album in 2008 and for Best Regional Roots Music Album in 2 ...

from 1986 until 1989, then formed a group of his own with his brothers Troy and Kevin. Carrier's third album, 1993's ''Dance All Night'', was his biggest success. Carrier has made guest appearances on albums by

Tab Benoit Tab Benoit (born November 17, 1967) is an American blues guitarist, musician, and singer. His playing combines a number of blues styles, primarily Delta blues. He plays a stock 1972 Fender Telecaster Thinline electric guitar and writes his own ...

– ''Live: Swampland Jam'',

Doug Kershaw Douglas James Kershaw (born January 24, 1936) is an American fiddle player, singer and songwriter from Louisiana. Active since 1948, he began his career as part of the duo Rusty and Doug, along with his brother, Rusty Kershaw. He had an extens ...

– ''Cajun Sweet Home Louisiana'', Calvin Owens – ''Stop Lying in My Face'' and

Jimmy Thackery Jimmy Thackery (born May 19, 1953, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States) is an American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter. Career Thackery spent fourteen years as part of The Nighthawks, the Washington, D.C. based blues and roots rock en ...

– ''Switching Gears''. Carrier's 2010 release Zydeco Junkie won the

Grammy The Grammy Awards (stylized as GRAMMY), or simply known as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize "outstanding" achievements in the music industry. They are regarded by many as the most pre ...

in the category Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album.

Personal life

Carrier is

Catholic The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

Discography

*Go Zydeco Go ( Jewel Records, 1989) *'' Boogie Woogie Zydeco'' (

Flying Fish Records Flying Fish Records was a record label founded in Chicago in 1974 that specialized in folk, blues, and country music. In the 1990s the label was sold to Rounder Records. Bruce Kaplan, the label's founder, was a native of Chicago and the son of ...

, 1991) *Dance All Night (

Blind Pig Records Blind Pig Records is an American blues independent record label. Blind Pig was formed in 1977 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, by Jerry Del Giudice, owner of the Blind Pig Cafe, and his friend Edward Chmelewski. The label is now based in San Francisco. I ...

, 1993) *Who Stole the Hot Sauce? (Blind Pig Records, 1996) *Too Hot to Handle (Louisiana Red Hot Records, 1999) *It's Party Time (Right Click Records, 1999) *Take Me to the Zydeco (Swampadelic Records, 2001) *Ain't No Party Like a Chubby Party (Swampadelic Records, 2005) *Bayou Road (Swampadelic Records, 2006) *

Live at Knuckleheads, Kansas City ''Live at Knuckleheads, Kansas City'' is an album by the Grammy winning Zydeco band Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band recorded at Knuckleheads Saloon Knuckleheads is a music venue in Kansas City, Missouri. The facility is a complex of f ...

(Swampadelic Records, 2007) * Zydeco Junkie (Swampadelic Records, 2010) *Zydeco Stuff (Swampadelic Records, 2015)

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