C. J. Chenier

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Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1957

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Listeners

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Total plays

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Clayton Joseph Chenier is the son of the King of Zydeco, the late Clifton Chenier, but, growing up in Port Arthur, Texas, where he was born in 1957, he had only occasional contact with his father, who lived with his wife in Lafayette. As a teenager, C.J. Thompson, as he was known then, going by his mother's last name, had little interest in zydeco. He was, however, a talented musician who played saxophone and keyboard, so that in 1978 when his father needed a sax player to fill in on a long roa

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The DNA sequence and biology of human chromosome 19

   · 2004 · cited 316x

2. Absolute Rate Constants for Hydrocarbon Autoxidation. XXI. Activation Energies for Propagation and the Correlation of Propagation Rate Constants with Carbon–Hydrogen Bond Strengths

   · 1972 · cited 223x

3. Measurement of Grip Strength: Validity and Reliability of the Sphygmomanometer and Jamar Grip Dynamometer

   · 1992 · cited 216x

4. Discordance Between HbA1c and Fructosamine

   · 2003 · cited 197x

5. Quality assessment of the human genome sequence

   · 2004 · cited 158x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Port Arthur

Occupation

musician

Languages spoken

English language

Genre

blues

Instrument

accordion

Record label

Alligator Records

Official website

www.alligator.com/index.cfm?section=artists&artistid=38

Image

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