A A Facebook- Twitter - More shares recommend reddit email - - Print Article Outside of New York, San Francisco, and maybe Miami, New Orleans has never had any serious competition for the title of America’s most exotic city. Since its founding in 1718, the combustible gumbo of cultures embedded in the city’s DNA has produced a lengthy list of flamboyant personalities who have left their mark on the Crescent City – pirates, poets, immigrants, thieves, politicians, voodoo priestesses, sugar barons, strippers, pimps, madams and, well, musicians. New Orleans may be known as the Birthplace of Jazz, but its players have left an equally lasting imprint on the fields of rhythm...
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