Zouk is the pulse of Guadeloupe. Its infectious beat is everywhere; a shimmering concoction of vocals, guitars and synthesisers set to a rapid, primal beat. It drifts from open windows, thumps in ...

Tributes are pouring in for Guadeloupean musician Jacob Desvarieux, co-founder of the band Kassav' who died at the age of 65 on Friday after catching Covid. He shot to fame in the 1980s with the ...

In 1983, Kassav', a band from the Antilles in the Caribbean, released Zouk La Se Sel Medikamen Non Ni (Zouk Is The Only Medicine We Have). It became the first Antillean record to sell 100,000 copies.

PARIS (AFP) - Jacob Desvarieux, the Guadeloupean co-founder of Caribbean band Kassav' which shot to global fame in the 1980s by creating the fast-beat zouk music style, has died of Covid-19. Local ...

Danse avec Macron. Désormais en pleine campagne pour l’élection présidentielle de 2017, Emmanuel Macron se rendait ce week-end en Guadeloupe, une des étapes de sa tournée des départements d’outre-mer.

The year was 1983, and Jacob Desvarieux was on tour with his French-Caribbean party band in Haiti when inspiration hit. Sitting inside a Port-au-Prince hotel, the singer-guitarist took pen to paper ...

Le leader du mouvement "En marche" a entamé sa tournée aux Antilles, et son passage en Guadeloupe commence sur les chapeaux de roue. Au milieu de quelques discours et propositions on ne peut plus ...

The convoluted make-up of Guadeloupe means that it has four 'mothers': Europe, Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, but as Richard Newton found, it has one unifying sound 'WHEN you are from everywhere, who ...

En déplacement en Guadeloupe, Emmanuel Macron, candidat à la présidentielle, s'est essayé à quelques pas de danse. Il a aussi dévoiler quelques éléments de son programme pour l'Outre-mer. On a ...

Passage obligé pour tous les candidats à l'élection présidentielle, les Antilles accueillent Emmanuel Macron tout le week-end. Entre réunions publiques, discours et rencontres avec les habitants, ...