''Yélélé'' is a 1984

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. 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

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and the

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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 Dominican trumpeter, vocalist, arranger, composer and producer. He was instrumental in making the merengue style a worldwide phenom ...

and his big band. This was the title track of his 1985 album, ''La Medicina''.

References

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