11 Facts About Kassav'

Kassav' is a French Caribbean band formed in Guadeloupe in 1979.

Kassav' have issued over 20 albums, with a further 12 solo albums by band members.

Music of Kassav' is an extension of cadence-lypso or compas bands, such as Grammacks, Exile One, Les Aiglons and Experience 7 of the 1970s.

Kassav' was formed in 1979 by Pierre-Edouard Decimus and Paris studio musician Jacob Desvarieux.

Kassav' is the creator of the fast carnival zouk Beton style.

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The French Antilles' Kassav' was the first to apply the MIDI technology to cadence and fused the genre with funk, and Makossa.

Kassav' continued to gain popularity both as a group and by several members' solo recordings, eventually peaking in 1985 with Yelele, which featured the international hit "Zouk la se sel medikaman nou ni".

Kassav' has been noted by its acolytes and aficionados as a dance band par excellence.

Kassav' released another CD in 2007, All U Need Is Zouk, to substantial acclaim with another successful world tour.

Originally formed solely of Guadeloupean artists, within a few years Kassav' embraced band members of Martinican ancestry ; their music is mostly compas that delved deep into synthesized sounds after exploring many acoustic timbres, with rhythms based fundamentally in a gwo ka context, especially in earlier recordings.

Kassav' had been medically induced into a coma for almost a month.