Stacy is a

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 ...

singer from

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and

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who sings in French and Creole.

Biography

She grew up in the grew up in the Volga-plage and Baie des Tourelles neighbourhoods in

Fort-de-France Fort-de-France (, , ; gcf, label=Martinican Creole, Fodfwans) is a Communes of France, commune and the capital city of Martinique, an overseas department and region of France located in the Caribbean. It is also one of the major cities in the ...

, Martinique. Her father is also a zouk singer.

Career

Her first single recorded with Dj Creeks MX, was a hit, charting at number 1 in the French West Indies and Guyana in 2014; its official video has been viewed over 10 million times on YouTube. She has made appearances on television including

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, in the programme and at the

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. Stacy was nominated for Best New International Act at the

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in 2020. At the

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later that year, she performed in Creole as Soul Cypher, where guests show their talent by freestyling over an instrumental track. Stacy has recently moved from releasing singles to creating an album with her new label, Aztec Musique, the same label who signed

Edith Lefel Edith Lefel (November 1963, in Cayenne, French Guiana - 20 January 2003, in Dreux, France) was a French singer. Biography Lefel's mother was from French Guiana and her father, a meteorologist, from the island of Martinique; she is Edith in mem ...

. As of March 2022 her track has had nearly four million views on YouTube. It inspired a number of lipsync videos; Stacy has said in an interview that she is pleased to see her work and language resonate and become better known in this way, defying an expectation that Creole language music cannot be exported from the Caribbean.

Album

2020 (Aztec Musique)

References

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