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Chavis, Wilson Anthony “Boozoo”
The African American National Biography (2008)
  • Demetria R Shabazz, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Abstract
Zydeco musician and quarter-horse trainer, Wilson Anthony ‘Boozoo’ Chavis,” was born into a farming community in Dog Hill near Lake Charles, Louisiana. He became one of the first Zydeco artist to have a hit record.
Keywords
  • Zydeco,
  • Biography
Disciplines
Publication Date
February, 2008
Editor
Henry Louis Gates, Jr and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN
9780195301731
Citation Information
Demetria R Shabazz. "Chavis, Wilson Anthony “Boozoo”" New YorkThe African American National Biography (2008)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/demetria_shabazz/2/