Kassav' - Tékit Izi

Zouk means party on the (French speaking) islands in the Caribbean. And although based on old music traditions, Zouk is not as old as many people think and it wasn't even formed in the Caribbean, but in Paris.
All thanks to just one man: Guadeloupean Pierre Edouard Decimus, co-leader of the legendary cadence band Les Vikings de la Guadeloupe.
He was the one grabbing several Antilles music traditions and forged them into a newer modern, more rhythmic state of the art sound.
Quickly picked up by musicians from both Guadeloupe and Martinique it started to spread amongst the Antilles islands and by 1985 people were jumping on these beats at parties and for many islands especially with carnival, although there are islands that kept evolving their own traditions, like tumba on Curacao.

Kassav' was and is one of the most important bands in the Zouk tradition, with different line-ups over the years and many solo spin-off projects from individual band members, that caused zouk to shift rather more towards what people like to hear than staying close to the original formed tradition.