Experience 7

Experience 7
Experience 7
Origin	Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe
Genres	Kadans, Compas, World music
Years active	1976–2001
Labels	Debs Music; Pastel Prod
Members	Guy Houllier; Yves Honoré
Website	http://www.myspace.com/experience7#

Experience 7 was a Guadeloupean kadans band formed in the mid-1970s, led by Guy Houllier and Yves Honore. However, unlike Kassav' or Malavoi, the small band produced most of its songs with Henry Debs in Guadeloupe.

Biography

Career

The group was created in 1976 by Guy Houllier and Yves Honore added that the successes such as "LA OLA Mizik YE" and "PLAS BAY LI". It also represents the great Romantic era marked by immortal love songs such as "Whilfried", "Vivre pour toi", "Isabelle" ... and other tunes with "Carmelina", "Lanmou sé on danjé". Indeed, they have the audacity, to make Carnival (1983), an album of "straining your" winning a huge success as it was unexpected. But with "Goudjoua" and especially Roro, that was the first hit to reach the national charts, they have not forgotten about the explosive atmosphere that it gives off. As memorable as Hurricane Hugo, the song "Sois belle" becomes a hymn to the hope of the rebirth of Guadeloupe as they were ambassadors around the world.^[1] They have indeed raised the flag of Guadeloupe in Europe, Suriname, Martinique, Guyane, Haiti, Réunion, French Polynesia, Seychelles, New Caledonia, throughout West Africa, Canada and the United States.

Musical style

Through the years, Experience 7 used various styles of Caribbean music from mid 1970 to very late 2000. Those songs have spanned genres as diverse as biguine, cadence-lypso, and kadans/compas.

Influences

The work done to bring the group Zouk Machine, the band leaders create and composed, to the highest steps of the charts internationally (including the famous title Maldon), made them somewhat let down the band.

Late career

With the pressure from their fans, drove them to reoffend after 1995, when Zouk Machine split. They realize that three zouk-love or compas albums on which emerge from songs like "Pou Vou" (1996), "Sirena" (1997), "Extreme tendresse" (1998).

The 21st century saw the creation of Guy Houllier solo album called "Tendans" that took three SACEM prizes, rewarding the 25-year career of the Guadeloupean "crooner" in 2001.

Discography

1976 : Experimental Whilfried
1977 : Vivre pour toi
1978 : Osibisa
1978 : Isabelle
1979 : Adieu Carmélina
1980 : Banzaï
1981 : Siw Bizwen Milyon
1983 : Je reviendrais
1984 : Tendrement vôtre
1985 : Diva
1985 : Roro
1987 : Goudjoua
1990 : Sois belle
1996 : Zouk N'Love
1997 : Sirena
1998 : Extreme tendresse
2001 : Tendans (Album solo) Guy Houllier
2008 : Mistè lanmou

References

^ "Ces chansons qui font l'actu après le cyclone" [These songs that make the news after the cyclone] (in French). France TV Info. 9 September 2017..

Berrian, Brenda F. (2000). Awakening spaces: French Caribbean popular song, music, and culture. University of Chicago Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-226-04455-2. Retrieved 31 May 2011.
Guilbault, Jocelyne (1993). Zouk: world music in the West Indies. University of Chicago Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-226-31041-1. Retrieved 31 May 2011.

External links

Experience 7 discography at Discogs

[1] "Ces chansons qui font l'actu après le cyclone" [These songs that make the news after the cyclone] (in French). France TV Info. 9 September 2017..

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