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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1927-03-20
- Active to
- 1992-06-17
cajun
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- 4,904
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- 24,218
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Dewey Balfa (March 20, 1927 – June 17, 1992) was an American Cajun fiddler and singer who contributed significantly to the popularity of Cajun music. Balfa was born near Mamou, Louisiana. He is perhaps best known for his 1964 performance at the Newport Folk Festival with Gladius Thibodeaux and Vinus LeJeune, where the group received an enthusiastic response from over seventeen thousand audience members. He sang the song "Parlez Nous à Boire" in the 1981 cult film Southern Comfort, in which he ha
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Mamou
- Child
- Christine Balfa
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Languages spoken
- Louisiana French
- Genre
- folk music
- Instrument
- fiddle
- Image
- Dewey Balfa Bordeaux 1977.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1927-03-20
- date of death
- 1992-06-17
- start of work period
- 1948-00-00
- Commons category
- Dewey Balfa
- copyright representative
- Broadcast Music, Inc.
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