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Roy Carrier (February 11, 1947 – May 3, 2010), born Joseph Roy Carrier, was an American Zydeco musician. He was the father of Chubby and Dikki Du Carrier, who followed their father into Zydeco music. ==Early years== Roy Carrier was born February 11, 1947 in rural Louisiana near Lawtell, one of 9 children in a sharecropping family. Carrier's father Warren, himself a Zydeco musician, would play the accordion on weekends at parties and la la dances. When Carrier was 6 years old, he began to accompany his father to these events, and would play along with him on the frottoir, or "rubboard".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Roy Carrier Biography )〕 He continued this for several years, moving to drums and then to guitar. His desire, however, was always to play the accordion like his father, and he would secretly practice on his father's accordion when Warren was away,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Roy Carrier: Reluctant No More )〕 risking a beating when he was caught.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Carrier, Roy & the Night Rockers )〕 His father soon recognized his skill with the instrument and would then allow him to freely practice. Carrier formed his first band in 1961, at the age of 14, with himself on guitar, a brother on drums, his uncle on the rubboard, and a local accordion player named Chris Johnson.〔 The band was named The Night Rockers, and was the first version of the band that Carrier would continue to use throughout his life. Most of them being underage, the band could not play the local bars, but did play many parish dances.〔 Carrier would watch and learn from Johnson's accordion play, and continued to practice. After a year, Johnson left the band and Carrier prepared to take over the lead. However, around this time he lost most of his right index finger in a farming accident, preventing him from taking up the accordion, and impacting his guitar play for several years.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roy Carrier」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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