René Lacaille, born January 28, 1946, in Saint-Leu, La Réunion, France, is a
French Réunionnais accordionist, singer, guitarist, saxophonist, and
percussionist. An autodidact, Lacaille learned accordion and drums at age 7
performing in local "bals la poussière" with his family. Lacaille left La
Réunion in 1966 with his brother Renaud to train in mainland France, returning
in the early 1970s to perform with Luc Donat's group Ad-Hoc. Lacaille co-founded
the ensembles Caméléon and Satisfaction with Alain Péters, pioneering electric
maloya as a guitarist. Settling in Paris in the ear...