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Zouk is a nightclub in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. The club is named after a French creole word for 'party'. It has won the Singapore Tourism Board's "Best Nightspot Experience" award 6 times, between 1996 and 2007. Zouk was ranked as number 10 on DJ Magazine's list of Top 100 clubs in the world in 2006, 2007 and 2010; in 2016, it ranked as number 4.In September 2015, its founder, Lincoln Cheng, sold the iconic club to Genting Hong Kong, an affiliate of the Genting Singapore. The brand and its business was valued at S$40 million by financial audit firm Ernst & Young in 2013.LocationsThe three old warehouses that make up the original Zouk were built in 1919 by the Singapore River, on present day Jiak Kim Road. The buildings now house three interconnected clubs: Zouk (1991), with a large dancefloor and state-of-the-art sound and lighting, catering to a variety of artists Velvet Underground (1994), a quieter, more relaxed lounge that plays house and soul Phuture (1996), a more avant-garde bar specialising in broken beats and hip hop/R&B. In 2004, Zouk opened a sister club at Ampang Road (Jalan Ampang) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Zouk KL features four rooms: Zouk and Velvet Underground styled on the original, plus the Loft and Terrace bars. It relocated to Tun Razak Exchange in 2015.