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Rod Bernard | |
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Birth name | Rodney Ronald Louis Bernard[1] |
Born | August 12, 1940 |
Origin | Opelousas, Louisiana, U.S. |
Died | July 12, 2020 New Iberia, Louisiana, U.S. | (aged 79)
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Years active | 1958–2020 |
Labels | Carl, Jin, Argo, Crazy Cajun, La Louisianne, Arbee, CSP, etc. |
Formerly of | The Twisters, The Shondells, Warren Storm |
Rod Bernard (August 12, 1940[2] – July 12, 2020)[3] was an American singer who helped to pioneer the musical genre known as "swamp pop", which combined New Orleans-style rhythm and blues, country and western, and Cajun and black Creole music. He is generally considered one of the foremost musicians of this south Louisiana-east Texas idiom, along with such notables as Bobby Charles, Johnnie Allan, Tommy McLain, and Warren Storm.