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President Macron leads tributes for fallen music icon Desvarieux

The late Jacob Desvarieux of Kassav band who died on July 30, 2021. (Courtesy)

French President Emmanuel Macron has led tributes to Zouk music crooner Jacob Desvarieux, co-founder of the band Kassav who died on Friday aged 65.

The Guadeloupean musician was battling ill-health after undergoing a kidney transplant and was taken to University Hospital of Abymes in Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe’s largest city, on July 12 where he had been placed under induced coma after testing positive for the deadly Covic-19 virus.

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