The Death of Amedee Ardoin

Ened for ours vhite people :-(.He did have an good and nice singing and music

Fucking rednecks! Amedee was great. But his music is not dead. Terrible story for that great accordeonist. RIP

Sadd Sadd Story. He Was Great.

He Sort Of Looks Like Tommy Davidson, Just A Little.....

It's a shame on humanity that racism still exist..

Yes, just listen to some of the rhetoric directed at President Obama! These nuts are still out there (one carried a gun to the place where Obama was speaking just the other day!)! Will the world ever be rid of these haters?!

So you'e too ignorant to see the connection between the hate that killed Amade and the threats against Obama! Don't call me a "hater" for opposing hate speech--- you're obviously a republican-fascist so hate is your bag not mine! And you don't honor Amade's genius by supporting the very hate that killed him!!!

I love you Amedee , thank you for lighting the torch and for your love of Creole music and life.
He is the reason my cousin Beau Jocque can be remembered as a great Creole Zydeco musician.

From Wikipedia:

"The date and place of his death is uncertain. Descendants [...] tell a story, now well-known, about a racially motivated attack [...]

Others consider the story apocryphal. Other versions say that Amédé was poisoned, not beaten, possibly by a jealous fellow musician.

Contemporaries said that Amédé suffered from impaired mental and musical capacities later in his life probably from that infamous night. He ended up in an asylum in Pineville, Louisiana."