Midnight Groovers
Grand Bay, Dominica
Cadence-lypso / Zouk • Dominica
An Exile One founding musician named among Dominica’s kadans pioneers.
Behind the music
Julie Mourillon appears in the Division of Culture’s account of Dominican popular music as one of the musicians who formed Exile One: the 1994 Gordon Henderson biography it republishes names Mourillon among the Dominican players brought together for the new band. A companion survey says that during the eighties Gordon Henderson, Jeff Joseph and Julie Mourillon were all pursuing solo careers and releasing albums. The essay on post-independence trends adds that Mourillon briefly worked with a funky kadans groove called Island Boogie before moving toward the emerging zouk sound. These government texts give no birthplace, dates or song titles, so this profile stays with that outline.