Michael Louis Doucet (born February 14, 1951)[1] is an American singer-songwriter and musician best known as the founder of the Cajun band BeauSoleil.

[4] He learned banjo at age six, guitar at eight, and belonged to a Cajun rock band with his cousin, Zachary Richard, at twelve.

BeauSoleil plays an eclectic combination of traditional Cajun music, blues, country, jazz, and zydeco.

"I had planned to go to graduate school in New Mexico to study the Romantic poets," he recalls on the Vanguard Records web site.

[6] In 1975, Doucet received an NEA Folk Arts Apprenticeship Grant to study Cajun fiddle styles from masters such as Varise Conner, Hector Duhon, Canray Fontenot, Lionel LeLeux, and Dennis McGee.