- Cajun fiddler.
- Played at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964. He returned to the festival three years later with The Balfa Brothers.
- Nominated for Best Ethnic Or Traditional Folk Recording at the 1985 Grammy Awards.
- Awarded with an NEA National Heritage Fellowship in 1982.
- Hosted a weekly Cajun music show on Eunice, Louisiana radio station KEUN.
- Inducted into the Cajun Music Hall of Fame in 1997.
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