a.k.a
COCO
NUT 
Folk artist
Marquis de COCO NUT, is a French adventurer born in southwest France.
Fascinated at the age of 9 by an early "Rolling Stones" record(Got live if you want it),
he was now
forever Rhytm &
Blues bound.
In the 1980's, in West
Berlin, he founded with Françoise
Cactus the "Lolitas".
They recorded several records, among them "Fusée d'amour" produced 1988 by Alex Chilton in Memphis, TN and "Bouche Baiser" produced 1990 by Chris Chris Spedding in New York City.
In 1993, he quit the "Lolitas" and lived successively in New
Orleans, Louisiana (meeting with Ernie K-Doe), New York City and Baltimore, Md.
In 1995 he was stranded in Guadeloupe
(French West Indies) where he recorded two CDs on his own label,
"Tigres Production Guadeloupe".
The "Coco Nut Boogie" was born, a fine blend of Rhythm & Blues,
Soul,
Ska, Zydeco, Quadrille, Twoubadou
and Mento
In Guadeloupe he was backed on stage by Tony Faisans, founder of
"Les Rapaces",a legendary combo in the French West Indies.
In 2005 he founds les Barons du Bayou who perform louisiania music live.
2007 he starts a new projekt: the "Art & Music $how", an exhibition of his paintings with live music in clubs, record stores or other....
