''Yélélé'' is a 1984
zouk album of
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 ...
.
This album marks the onset of the growth of the international recognition of zouk. Its international hit "Zouk la sé sèl médikaman nou ni" (meaning "Zouk is the only medicine we have" in
French Antillean Creole) started the zouk dance craze in
Latin America and the
Caribbean
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, with interest expanding into other parts of the world.
Track list
#"Yélélé" 6:50
#"Tim-Tim Bwa Sek" 4:24
#"Zouk-la-sé Sel Médikaman Nou Ni" 6:24
#"Korosol" 3:12
#"Kavalié O Dam" 6:10
#"Mwen Di Ou Awa" 4:45
#"Chwazi" 4:38
#"Sé Ou Mwen Inmé"
Covers
"Zouk-la-sé Sel Médikaman Nou Ni" would be covered in Spanish as "La Medicina" by
Dominican trumpeter, vocalist and arranger
Wilfrido Vargas
Wilfrido Radamés Vargas Martínez (; born April 24, 1949 in Altamira, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic) is a band leader, trumpeter, vocalist, arranger, composer and producer who was instrumental in making the merengue style a worldwide pheno ...
and his big band. This was the title track of his 1985 album, ''La Medicina''.
References
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1984 albums
Zouk