{"id":2393147,"date":"2026-04-28T16:31:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2393147"},"modified":"2026-04-28T16:31:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:31:37","slug":"dustin-dale-gaspard-on-kickstarter-recording-new-album-entertainment-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/dustin-dale-gaspard-on-kickstarter-recording-new-album-entertainment-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Dustin Dale Gaspard on Kickstarter, recording new album | Entertainment\/Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-breakout=\"1\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8\">\n<p>He made a nation fall in love with the smooth sounds of Cajun French on &#8220;The Voice.&#8221; He&#8217;s a road warrior, touring his brand of swamp-Americana all over Louisiana and the country. Dustin Dale Gaspard has been busy\u00a0\u2014 and he&#8217;s not slowing down any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>Since appearing on season 28 of &#8220;The Voice,&#8221; the singer from Cow Island has been further refining his sound in front of audiences that love Gaspard&#8217;s modern take on swamp pop\u00a0\u2014 a blend of blues, country, and Cajun folk that exploded in previous generations with local stars like <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theadvocate.com\/acadiana\/entertainment_life\/tk-hulin-greets-fans-at-screening\/article_572d2d44-b7b9-4b6d-9bae-d5f3fe7de77e.html\">TK Hulin<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gaspard&#8217;s debut on &#8220;The Voice,&#8221; with a bilingual cover of Sam Cooke&#8217;s &#8220;Bring It On Home To Me,&#8221; epitomized much of what this artist does better than anyone else\u00a0\u2014 fusing soulful, accessible tunes with Louisiana French and a deep Cajun sensibility. On a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/dustindalegaspard\/dustin-dale-gaspard-expanding-the-boundaries-of-cajun-music?ref=android_thanks_facebook_share&amp;utm_id=97758_v0_s00_e0_tv0&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawRdmOhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETE3TFBYN04zQ00xUVprVDU0c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHjqobSpK5CX5KKlqM-Wi5QxpkaKY8HO47GagtHxL_7qcJE4wuRkJAbYQ5C5s_aem_i6EU2SkP1hpqEMvQSmb_pg\">Kickstarter<\/a> he recently published to raise funds for his next album, Gaspard explains that his Cajun identity is central to who he is as an artist\u00a0\u2014 and that&#8217;s why he wants to expand the boundaries of what &#8220;Cajun music&#8221; is.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div data-breakout=\"2\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8\">\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to separate any of my creativity anymore,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It might be folk songs. It might be funk songs. It will certainly be a lot of soul-inspired bilingual music. I want to pursue my creativity, in the opposite direction of traditional music.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE<\/strong>:\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theadvocate.com\/acadiana\/entertainment_life\/how-louisianas-dustin-dale-gaspard-got-on-the-voice\/article_84b0b422-e57d-489c-9797-f0b2b20a6a83.html\">How Louisiana singer Dustin Dale Gaspard got to &#8216;The Voice,&#8217; after his van broke down in Texas<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t mean abandoning his Cajun roots. Far from it. On the Kickstarter, Gaspard talks about pushing for a swamp pop revival\u00a0\u2014 that southwest Louisiana-grown genre that pulls in all of the sounds that make you move and feel something, and mixes it with a bit of Cajun\u00a0rock \u2019n\u2019 roll.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div data-breakout=\"3\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8\">\n<p>&#8220;As I&#8217;ve experienced my heritage and my culture as a Cajun, there were so many things portrayed to me about that heritage that didn&#8217;t necessarily feel like me,&#8221; according to Gaspard. &#8220;It felt more like what people were telling me that I am.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My pursuit in my music has always been to express myself as creatively as possible and talk about who I am, and that means accepting that I&#8217;m not necessarily a traditional Cajun artist. There&#8217;s a lot of people that are losing their connection to who they are\u00a0\u2014 or maybe they are trying to discover who they are, especially when it doesn&#8217;t look like all the ways that we&#8217;ve been taught. My hope is to create the next step in the progress and expansion of Cajun music, to re-inspire and help reignite an identity for my generation and the generations to come.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div data-breakout=\"4\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8\">\n<p>Dustin Dale Gaspard will play two sets at the New Orleans Jazz &amp; Heritage Festival on Saturday, May 2 at 12 p.m. and 3 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.theadvocate.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He made a nation fall in love with the smooth sounds of Cajun French on &#8220;The Voice.&#8221; He&#8217;s a road warrior, touring his brand of swamp-Americana all over Louisiana and the country. 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