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Kassav'

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2007 - All U Need Is Zouk

2004 - K toz

2000 - Nou la

1998 - Un Toque Latino

1995 - Difé

1992 - Tékit izi

1989 - Majestik zouk
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1988 - Zouk Is the Only Medicine We Have

1987 - Vini pou

1985 - An ba chen'n la

1984 - Aye

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6 Mixed

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Paris, France

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World/Ethnic

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International

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Born

1979

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1979 to Present...

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Kassav' (Antillean Creole for a local dish made from cassava root) is a Francophone zouk and compas music band formed in Paris in 1979. The core members of the band are Jocelyne Béroard, Jacob Desvarieux, Jean-Philippe Marthély, Patrick St. Eloi, Jean-Claude Naimro, Claude Vamur and Georges Décimus (who left to form Volte Face and returned). Kassav' have issued over 20 albums, with a further 12 solo albums by band members. Kassav' was formed in 1979 by Pierre-Edouard Décimus (former musicians from the Les Vikings de Guadeloupe) and Paris studio musician Jacob F. Desvarieux. Together and under the influence of well-known Guadeloupean combo Experience 7, Grammacks and Exile One, they decided to make Guadeloupean carnival music and record it in a more fully orchestrated yet modern and polished style. In the 1980s they took Caribbean music to another level by recording in the new digital format.