Mario Chicot, also simply Mario, is a popular

zouk Zouk is a musical movement pioneered by the French Antillean band Kassav' in the early 1980s. It was originally characterized by a fast tempo (120–145 bpm), a percussion-driven rhythm and a loud horn section. The fast zouk béton of Martini ...

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Guadeloupe Guadeloupe (; ; gcf, label=Antillean Creole, Gwadloup, ) is an archipelago and overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Désirade, and the ...

. He became known with the hit ''Petite fille'' in 1988, and then had a string of hits in the boom for zouk music in France during the 1990s. In 2011 he released a comeback album ''Besoin de toi.'' Mario Chicot revient avec Besoin de toi.
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