My favorite Zouk singer

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Francky Vincent is a singer, song-writer, producer, painter, manager and musician of a minimum of 170 songs from Guadeloupe. He is famous for his provocative and explicit lyrics, vicious openness, and his charismatic smile. He is known for his single Fruit De La Passion, which is the best outstanding and successful of his career, selling over 700.000 copies in Metropolitan France, more than any other Zouk solo singer.

He has sold a total of over 2 million albums worldwide especially in francophone countries. He is mirrored by many to be the greatest prevalent and prosperous Guadeloupian solo singer, one of the Greatest Caribbean Artists of All Time and the most well-known Zouk singer in France.

origins of Zouk

Zouk is a syle of Rythmic music which comes from The Caribbean and Brazil during the 1980s.

In Native creole language zouk means "party". It was invented when many different styles were mixed like, kompa, balakadri, mazurka and biguine, the dominica based cadence and bal granmoun dances, french and american pop and other indigenous styles. 

Famous zouk singers

• Tanya Saint Val
• Kwak
• Gilles Floro
• Zouk machine
• Leviation

some popular zouk music's links

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5gT0pjVVBA
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwF5ephkp38&mode=related&search=
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYfVKr6Dw_Y&feature=fvst

Types of Zouk dance

There are two types of Zouk dance; Caribbean Zouk and Lambada-Zouk

Caribbean Zouk 

The caribbean zouk comes from the Latin dance style known as merengue, a two-step beat with partners holding each other. The male is the leading partner holding the female hips with the right hand and the left hand holding her hand.

The basic steps of the Caribbean zouk is stepping forward with the right foot then the left and travelling backwards with the right foot and the same with the left. the hips must swing freely to the side of the body.

The Lambada-zouk

The lambada-Zouk is also known as the Zouk-love originated in the northeast region of Brazil. the basic steps of the Lambada Zouk is that the leader steps forward with the right foot on the first beat and further forward with the left on three beat and rapidly brings the right foot in line on beat four. Do not forget to let your hips swing freely from side to side as you are performing the dance.