Experience 7

Experience 7
Experience 7
Origin	Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe
Genres	Kadans, Compas, World music
Years active	1976–2001
Labels	Debs Music; Pastel Prod
Members	Guy Houllier; Yves Honoré
Website	http://www.myspace.com/experience7#

Experience 7 was a Guadeloupean kadans band formed in the mid-1970s, led by Guy Houllier and Yves Honore. However, unlike Kassav' or Malavoi, the small band produced most of its songs with Henry Debs in Guadeloupe.

Biography

Career

The group was created in 1976 by

Guyane, Haiti, Réunion, French Polynesia, Seychelles, New Caledonia, throughout West Africa, Canada and the United States

.

Musical style

Through the years, Experience 7 used various styles of Caribbean music from mid 1970 to very late 2000. Those songs have spanned genres as diverse as biguine, cadence-lypso, and kadans/compas.

Influences

The work done to bring the group Zouk Machine, the band leaders create and composed, to the highest steps of the charts internationally (including the famous title Maldon), made them somewhat let down the band.

Late career

With the pressure from their fans, drove them to reoffend after 1995, when Zouk Machine split. They realize that three

zouk-love or compas

albums on which emerge from songs like "Pou Vou" (1996), "Sirena" (1997), "Extreme tendresse" (1998).

The 21st century saw the creation of Guy Houllier solo album called "Tendans" that took three SACEM prizes, rewarding the 25-year career of the Guadeloupean "crooner" in 2001.