Michael Doucet

Michael Louis Doucet is a Grammy-winning Cajun fiddler, singer, songwriter and bandleader from Scott, Louisiana, best known as founder of BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet formed in 1975. A 2005 NEA National Heritage Fellow, he is credited with leading the Cajun music revival by apprenticing with masters like Dennis McGee, Canray Fontenot and Varise Conner and blending traditional Louisiana French music with zydeco, jazz, blues, country and swamp pop. BeauSoleil has released more than two dozen albums, earned 11 Grammy nominations and won two Grammys (1998, 2008), touring worldwide from Lafayette dancehalls to Carnegie Hall.