caption genre death_date years_active birth_name alias article_title background alt birth_date instrument image origin name occupation
boozoo . chavis at the 2000 original southwest zydeco festival zydeco 05 may 2001 1954 -- 2001 wilson chavis boozoo chavis boozoo chavis
 solo_singer boozoo . chavis at the 2000 original southwest zydeco festival 23 october 1930 cajun accordion boozoochavis.jpg louisiana wilson anthony chavis musician , accordionist , singer
boozoo chavis

wilson anthony `` boozoo '' chavis -lrb- born october 23 , 1930 in lake charles , la and died may 5 , 2001 in austin , texas -rrb- was a zydeco musician -- music created by french speaking creoles of south-west louisiana .
he was active from 1954 until his death during which time he largely sang and played the accordion .
chavis was also a prolific writer of zydeco songs .
many of his songs have become standards of the zydeco repertoire , in spite of , or perhaps because of , their generally idiosyncratic and quirky construction and subject matter .
`` if it 's wrong , do it wrong , with me , '' he would tell his band .
`` if i 'm wrong , you wrong , too ! ''
his wife 's name was leona and they had six children , wilson jr. , margret , louanna , charles , licia , and rellis chavis and had over 20 grandchildren .
boozoo was crowned `` the king of zydeco '' in new orleans in the 1990s .
his son charles was a member of his band at the time .
