"Boris who?"

Boris Blank from Switzerland. He's recognized as a pioneer in synthetic pop, rock, Latin music and jazz.

"You were the one who said you didn't recognize some of the current pop stars."

That song I posted is from 1982. Yello (who as far as I know broke up long ago) were like gods to the New Wave groups of the 80s although they were not New Wave themselves. They were recording for Ralph Records, an S.F. underground label, for some years prior to that. I was already a big fan of Yello back then so that by the time the New Wave embraced them they were all latecomers to me.

"As far as I'm concerned, if a zydeco band does not have an accordion but uses a synthesizer instead, it's an ersatz zydeco band."

They are not a zydeco band at all. They are a straight folk band--guitars, mandos, banjos, fiddles, bass--the whole bit. But they did ONE SONG in a zydeco vein. With no hope of finding a zydeco player in their area, they used a synth to imitate and it sounds quite convincing.   and they do it very well onstage.

As for taking work away from a real zydeco player, I'm sure a million of them were dying to get that gig.