Roy Carrier was the father of Chubby and Dikki Du Carrier, who followed their father into Zydeco music and the brother of Zydeco T Carrier.
16 Facts About Roy Carrier
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Roy Carrier was born February 11,1947, in rural Louisiana near Lawtell, one of 10 children in a sharecropping family.
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When Roy Carrier was 6 years old, he began to accompany his father to these events, and would play along with him on the frottoir, or "rubboard".
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Roy Carrier continued this for several years, moving to drums and then to guitar.
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Roy Carrier's desire was always to play the accordion like his father, and he would secretly practice on his father's accordion when Warren was away, risking a beating when he was caught.
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Roy Carrier formed his first band in 1961, at the age of 14, with himself on guitar, a brother on drums, his uncle on the rubboard, and a local accordion player named Chris Johnson.
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The band was named The Night Rockers, and was the first version of the band that Roy Carrier would continue to use throughout his life.
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Roy Carrier would watch and learn from Johnson's accordion play, and continued to practice.
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At the age of 17, Roy Carrier returned to the accordion.
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In 1972, the 25-year-old Roy Carrier gave up farming and took a job as an offshore oil worker.
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Roy Carrier would spend the next 16 years at this job.
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Roy Carrier had saved enough money while working the rigs that in 1980 he was able to purchase a small local club in Lawtell, which he named The Offshore Lounge.
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In 1989, Roy Carrier quit the offshore work and, with the encouragement of Chubby, began touring with the Night Rockers outside of Louisiana.
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Roy Carrier is regarded as a teacher of nearly an entire generation of musicians.
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Originally it was created for Roy Carrier to sell from the stage on what turned out to be his last road trip to the East Coast.
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Roy Carrier died at age 63 in 2010 and was funeralized at Holy Family Catholic Church, in Lawtell, Louisiana.