Patrick Saint-Éloi (20 October 1958 – 18 September 2010) was a

Guadeloupean Guadeloupe (; ; gcf, label=Antillean Creole, Gwadloup, ) is an archipelago and Overseas departments and regions of France, overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre Island, Ba ...

singer and songwriter. He was one of the lead singers of the

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 ...

and

Compas Compas, also known as compas direct or compas direk (; Haitian Creole: ''konpa'', ''kompa'' or ''kompa dirèk''), is a modern méringue dance music genre of Haiti. The genre was popularized following the creation of Ensemble Aux Callebasses in ...

band

Kassav' Kassav' is a French Caribbean band formed in Guadeloupe in 1979. The core members of the band are Jacob Desvarieux, Jocelyne Béroard, Jean-Philippe Marthély, Patrick St. Eloi, Jean-Claude Naimro, Claude Vamur, and Georges Décimus (who left t ...

. As a solo artist, he helped create zouk beton, a fast music genre played only by Kassav'. He was also and admired figure of compas or Zouk Love. Saint-Éloi died of cancer in Pointe-à-Pitre in 2010, aged 51. A public tribute was organised in Moule before his burial.

Discography

Studio albums

* ''Misik Ce Lan-Mou'' (1982, 2M Production) * ''A La Demande'' (1984, GD Productions) * ''Jean-Philippe Marthely / Patrick Saint-Eloi'' (1985, GD Productions) * ''Bizouk'' (1992, Sonodisc) * ''Zoukamine'' (1994, Sonodisc) * ''Martheloi'' (1996, Martheloi, with Jean-Philippe Marthely) * ''Lovtans (1998, P.S.E. Productions) * ''Swing Karaib'' (2002, P.S.E. Productions, Lusafrica) * ''Plézi'' (2005, P.S.E. Productions)

Live albums

* ''Live à l'Olympia'' (2010, P.S.E. Productions, Note A Bene)

Compilations

* ''Zoukolexion Vol.1'' (2007, Note A Bene) * ''Zoukolexion Vol.2'' (2008, Note A Bene)

Selected tribute albums and posthumous releases

* ''Passion Saint-Eloi'' (2016, Note A Bene, tribute album)

References

External links

* 1958 births 2010 deaths Zouk musicians Guadeloupean musicians French people of Guadeloupean descent People from Pointe-à-Pitre Deaths from cancer in France 20th-century French male singers French male singer-songwriters {{pop-singer-stub