Jocelyne Béroard

Jocelyne Béroard

Born: September 12, 1954
in Fort-de-France, Martinique.
Jocelyne Béroard (born 12 September 1954) is a Martinican singer and songwriter. She is one of the lead singers of the Zouk and Compas band Kassav'. As a solo artist, she helped create zouk Beton, a music genre started by Kassav'. The main members are from Guadeloupe and Martinique.

Béroard was born in Fort-de-France, Martinique, and studied in France, attending the National School of Fine Arts in Paris, before beginning to work with Caribbean artistes as a background singer in 1980. She has served as a lead singer of Kassav' since 1983. She has also recorded several albums as a solo artist. In 1986, she won a Gold Disc for her album Siwo (the all-time biggest seller for an album by a female in the West Indies). In 1987, she recorded a duet with Philippe Lavil, the hit single "Kolé séré", which peaked at number four in France. In 1999, she was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.

In 2014, she sang "On n'oublie pas" (written by Serge Bilé) with several artists and personalities including Alpha Blondy, Harry Roselmack and Admiral T. This song is a tribute to the 152 victims from Martinique of the crash of 16 August 2005, to remember this event and to help the AVCA, the association of the victims of the air disaster, to raise funds.

She helped American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett write the song "Love and Luck", which appeared on the compilation album Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads. The song mentions the Kassav song "Kolé Sére".

On 1 April 2019, it was announced on Kassav's official Facebook page that Béroard was to marry her longtime fellow Jacob Desvarieux, singer and musician of the band and that the festivities were to take place on the day Kassav' will celebrate their 40 years. The announcement later proved to be a joke for April Fools' Day.

Source: Article "Jocelyne Béroard" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Title: La Compagnie créole, le bal manqué
Character: Self
Released: September 11, 2023
Type: Movie
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Zépon
Title: Zépon
Released: April 6, 2022
Type: Movie
Zépon is a tale that takes place in modern Martinique in the world of cockfighting, a strong element of Creole culture. It could be summed up in one line: Following a bet a man bets his only daughter on a cockfight.
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Vanille
Title: Vanille
Character: (voice)
Released: June 16, 2021
Type: Movie
Vanille is a little Parisian girl who has just arrived in Guadeloupe. She will be immersed in an exotic and mysterious adventure, meeting picturesque characters and magical flowers, all embellished with a touch of Creole. These holidays promise to be rich and full of surprises!
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Title: Sa sé le zouk,la vraie histoire du zouk
Character: Self
Released: October 27, 2020
Type: Movie
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Title: Le rêve français
Character: Betty
Released: March 21, 2018
Type: TV
In the 60s, the Government encourages Islanders to leave the French West Indies to escape poverty that results from the closure of sugar mills. Lured by the idea of a "dream country", they find life in Europe is not what they had imagined.
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Rose and the Soldier
Title: Rose and the Soldier
Character: Clémence
Released: April 2, 2015
Type: Movie
Martinique, 1942. Rose, a young teacher, is fired from her job by the Vichy regime of Admiral Robert. Rose seeks to leave the island by boat with a group of fellow dissidents. Her plans are thwarted by the landing on the island of a German officer, and her meeting with Jacques Meyer, the captain of the local navy. A strange confrontation between the German officer, Captain Meyer and rebellious Rose then begins.
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Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Title: Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Released: December 13, 2014
Type: Movie
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Jazz à Vienne - Soirée Caraïbes
Title: Jazz à Vienne - Soirée Caraïbes
Character: Self
Released: July 1, 2013
Type: Movie
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Title: Kassav au Festival Jazz à Vienne 2013
Character: Self
Released: July 1, 2013
Type: Movie
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Nèg maron
Title: Nèg maron
Character: La mère de Josua
Released: January 19, 2005
Type: Movie
Two childhood friends, Joshua and Flint, are adrift in boredom in their area of Sainte-Rose, Guadeloupe. They're involved in petty theft and ordinary System D, until the arrival of Marcus. Caught in a spiral, the difficult choices has to be done...
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Les Enfoirés 1996 - La Soirée des Enfoirés
Title: Les Enfoirés 1996 - La Soirée des Enfoirés
Released: February 10, 1996
Type: Movie
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Siméon
Title: Siméon
Character: Roselyne
Released: December 16, 1992
Type: Movie
The ghost of a music teacher pushes a young mechanic to start a career in music.
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Title: Collaricocoshow
Character: Self
Released: September 16, 1987
Type: TV
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Title: Sacrée soirée
Character: self
Released: September 2, 1987
Type: TV
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Title: Le monde est à vous
Character: Self
Released: February 8, 1987
Type: TV
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Title: Victoires de la musique
Character: Self - Kassav'
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: TV
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Title: Victoires de la musique
Character: Self - Kassav' (Group of the Year)
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: TV
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV