Inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2009.
Cajun singer.
Inducted into the Cajun Music Hall of Fame in 2004.
During the World War II started, he worked in a defense plant as a welder's helper and there he met a electrician and music aficionado named J.D. Miller.
He grew up in a bilingual family. His parents listened to the cowboy songs of Gene Autry, and the country music of Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family.