René Lacaille is a

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accordionist Accordions (from 19th-century German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame). The es ...

, currently based in

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. He was born into a musical family and taught himself to play the accordion at age 7 while on tour with his father. He has been described as a neo-traditionalist and plays in the séga style among others.

Discography

*''Aster'' (1996) *''Patanpo'' (1999) *''Digdig'' (2002) *''Mapou'' (2004) *''Cordéon Kaméléon'' (2009) *''Poksina'' (2011) *''Fanfaroné'' (2014) *''Gatir'' (2015)

References

External links

Artist's website (in French)Artist's website at MySpace.com (in French)René Lacaille's music agency pageRené Lacaille on culturebase.net
Living people Accordionists from Réunion 1946 births 21st-century accordionists {{Réunion-bio-stub