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Kevin Naquin And The Ossun Playboys
Biography
Kevin Naquin easily ran away with the Cajun French Music Association's Le Cajun Awards ceremony in 2000. The musician, who was in his early twenties at the time, swept five of the night's top awards along with his band, the Ossun Playboys. Naquin earned top honors as Accordionist of the Year and Vocalist of the Year, while he and the group took home Band of the Year and Album of the Year for their Pour la Première Fois release in 1999 from Swallow Records. The award for Song of the Year went to "Je Suis en Amour Avec la Femme Que J'ai Marie," which Naquin co-wrote with Barry Jean Ancelet, aka Jean Arceneaux. Unlike numerous Cajun songs that concentrate on love lost, "Je Suis en Amour Avec la Femme Que J'ai Marie" is a positive celebration of the enduring love of a man for the woman he took as his bride. Another Naquin and Ancelet collaboration, "Pour la Première Fois," from which the album takes its name, is similarly themed. Naquin has made a name for himself as an accomplished accordionist who puts his own slant on traditional Cajun numbers while still penning new music. The latter category would include his "Ossun Playboy Special," an instrumental.