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A Guadeloupian band from the 70s cadence era, led by Guy Houllier and Yves Honore (who have the further distinction of directing the studio band at the Henri Debs studio in Point Pitre, Guadeloupe). While the band can be heard lending their particular sound to countless successful projects involving the Debs studio, their own records as Experience 7 are usually uneven, due to an admirable willingness to experiment far beyond the zouk formula.
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Experience 7 was a Guadeloupean cadence band formed in the mid 1970s, led by Guy Houllier and Yves Honore. It was also one of the very first band to emphasized future Zouk pioneer band such as Kassav'. However unlike this bands such as Kassav' or Malavoi, the small band produced most songs with Henry Debs in Guadeloupe.
Biography
Career
Born in 1976, the group, created by Guy Houllier and Yves Honore added that the successes such as "LA OLA Mizik YE" and "PLAS BAY LI". It also represents the great Romantic era marked by slows immortal as "Whilfried", "Vivre pour toi", "Isabelle" ... and such as the Zouk Love precursors with "Carmelina", "Lanmou sé on danjé". They are decidedly melt in love. Indeed, they have the audacity, in the Carnival (1983), is an album of "straining your" winning a huge success as it was unexpected. But with "Goudjoua" and especially Roro, that was the first hit to reached the national charts, they are not forgotten about the explosive atmosphere that it gives off. As memorable as the Hurricane Hugo, the song "Sois belle" becomes a hymn to the hope of rebirth of Guadeloupe as they were the ambassadors around the world. They have indeed raised the flag of Guadeloupe in Europe, Surinam, Martinique, Guyane, Réunion, French Polynesia, Seychelles, New Caledonia, throughout West Africa, Canada and the United States.
Musical Style
Through the years, Experience 7 used various styles of Caribbean music from mid 1970 to very late 2000. Those songs have spanned genres as diverse as biguine, kadans, cadence-lypso, slow, world music, and later zouk in the 1990s.
Influences
The work done to bring the group Zouk Machine, the band leaders create and composed, to the highest steps of the charts international (including the famous title Maldon), made them somewhat let the band.
Zouk and late career
With the pressure from their fans, drives them to reoffend after 1995, when Zouk Machine split. They realize then three Zouk Love albums on which emerge from songs like "Pou Vou" (1996), "Sirena" (1997), "Extreme tendresse" (1998).
The 21st century saw the creation of Guy Houllier solo album called "Tendans" that takes three SACEM prizes, rewarding the 25-year career of the Guadeloupean "crooner" in 2001.
