Alexandre Stellio

clarinet · 1885–1939 · Saint-Pierre (Martinique)

Born Fructueux Alexandre in Saint-Pierre (Martinique) in 1885 and died in 1939, Stellio, a self-taught clarinetist, played in Cayenne then Fort-de-France before reaching Paris in 1929. There he became the "king of the Antillean dances," played every afternoon at the Guadeloupe pavilion of the 1931 Colonial Exposition and cut about thirty 78s.

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Styles

• Antillean jazz (biguine, gwoka)

Landmark tracks

• Ah! Gade Chabine La (1929)

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