Enchufada presents a 360º view of the zouk bass scene on the second volume of the "We Call It Zouk Bass" compilation series, out today, February 16th. Two years have passed since Buraka Som Sistema ...

San Diego based DJ and producer, BOLO headlines his first show at Zouk Nightclub at Resorts World in Las Vegas, NV. Las Vegas NOW caught up with him about his music and what’s to come in 2026.

Zouk music began in the West Indies in the early 1980s. The band Kassav is widely credited with creating the first popular zouk songs. The group was formed in Paris and combined traditional Caribbean ...

The late Jacob Desvarieux of Kassav band who died on July 30, 2021. (Courtesy) French President Emmanuel Macron has led tributes to Zouk music crooner Jacob Desvarieux, co-founder of the band Kassav ...

The word "zouk" is Antillean French Creole and means "party." The music quickly spread throughout the Caribbean and could also be heard on radios in northern Brazil. There, another music craze was ...

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, ha... Already a Barron's subscriber? Sign In ...