{"id":41384,"date":"2019-10-10T12:22:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T11:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/heavenly-sweetness-highlights-the-golden-era-of-guadeloupean-singer-erick-cosaque\/"},"modified":"2020-05-04T22:38:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T21:38:11","slug":"heavenly-sweetness-highlights-the-golden-era-of-guadeloupean-singer-erick-cosaque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/heavenly-sweetness-highlights-the-golden-era-of-guadeloupean-singer-erick-cosaque\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavenly Sweetness highlights the golden era of Guadeloupean singer Erick Cosaque"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30567 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Erick-Cosaque.png\" alt=\"Erick Cosaque\" width=\"1025\" height=\"727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Erick-Cosaque.png 478w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Erick-Cosaque-465x330.png 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Erick-Cosaque-375x266.png 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>The Parisian label focus on the career of Guadeloupean singer Erick Cosaque with <em>Chinal Ka<\/em>, a compilation regrouping his best work between 1973 and 1995. Listen to the first track here.<\/h4>\n<p>Erick Cosaque is a major figure in gwo ka, he managed to avoid being part of any institutional system \u2013 no label, no alliance, no funding.\u00a0His voice, one of the strongest in that genre, has been significant since the early \u201970s for restoring the original spontaneous and rebellious spirit present in gwo ka with artistic creations starting in the age of vinyl and continuing in the digital era.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2pEZege5GdM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Erick Cosaque resembles Gwo ka, whose music has simple components but is deeply rooted in a complex historical and social context made of fights, pleasures, memories and desires, all as this first track &#8220;Guadeloupe, \u00eele de mes amours&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em>Erick Cosaque 1973-1995<\/em>, out november 15th on <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/heavenly-sweetness\/\">Heavenly Sweetness<\/a>.<\/span> Discover the album cover art and the tracklist\u00a0below. Pre-order it now<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/antillesseries.bandcamp.com\/track\/guadeloupe-le-de-mes-amours\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-30559\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Erick-cosaque-e1570698861222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"679\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Erick-cosaque-e1570698861222.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Erick-cosaque-e1570698861222-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Erick-cosaque-e1570698861222-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Erick-cosaque-e1570698861222-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Erick-cosaque-e1570698861222-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Erick-cosaque-e1570698861222-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Erick-cosaque-e1570698861222-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Erick-cosaque-e1570698861222-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Erick-cosaque-e1570698861222-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Parisian label focus on the career of Guadeloupean singer Erick Cosaque with Chinal Ka, a compilation regrouping his best work between 1973 and 1995. 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