Alain Péters was a poet and musician from the French owned Reunion Island, 340 miles east of Madagascar. He was an icon and master of the traditional music of Reunion Island, the maloya. From the age of thirteen he began to play in a ball orchestra and then embarked on the bubbling of the hippie and disco years with bands with evocative names such as The Lords, Pop Decadence, Satisfaction. Towards the end of the 1970s there was the decisive meeting with another Reunion poet Read more on Last.fm