As the title says, where are they? Where are the female musicians when it comes to the Zydeco music. I have listened to Zydeco for years now and I have almost only stumbled across male artists when reading books, searching the internet for information about Zydeco music or scrolling through videos on YouTube. As a Swedish guy, I’m fascinated about this, because I find it quite odd that I can’t find more female musicians. There must be more out there! On this list which can be found here there’s only 3-4 female musicians/bands (not sure about the fourth one) of 35 different musicians/bands. Not many at all. I’m not even sure if all of them are playing Zydeco or if they play Cajun music which is different. But I’m pretty sure about one of them and that musician is Rosie Ledet.
The one and only or not?
To be honest I haven’t listened very much on her music because of the simple reason… I have been busy listening to other bands. But there’s some songs that almost every Zydeco band plays, including the song Zydeco Boogaloo. On her album “Pick It Up (2005)” there’s a version of that song and I love it! Actually… this song is one of my favorite tunes. It doesn’t matter what band plays it because it has that rhythm which makes you want to dance! She may not be my favorite artist, but she has some great versions of some songs. Just wish it would be more balanced out there, like 50% woman and 50% men (and that ain’t gonna happen I guess). Then you could ask yourself this… why 50/50? The three word answer I have for that is… I don’t know.