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He has penned songs for a number of popular Haitian performers and groups including Zenglen, T-Vice, dISIP, Roody Roodboy and Rutshelle Guillaume, ...
Michael Brun’s BAYO brought Haitian music and diaspora pride to Barclays, with NYC mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani joining on ...
He has penned songs for a number of popular Haitian performers and groups including Zenglen, T-Vice, dISIP, Roody Roodboy and Rutshelle Guillaume, who will be making her Compas Festival debut on ...
While the local Haitian music scene may be surging, the news out of Haiti remains bleak. Armed gangs control much of Port-au-Prince, with murders, kidnappings, and assaults rampant.
Michaël Brun is using music to make the world hear Haiti loud and clear. This Haitian Heritage Month, we’re highlighting Haitian Konpa with producer Michaël Brun, who connects the diaspora one ...
Grief, growth and Haitian Konpa: singer-songwriter Fridayy reveals layers of his identity in his newest album. In his album “Some Days I’m Good, Some Days I’m Not,” Philly-born music ...
All genres of music are hugely popular, and BLUME Haiti alone supports more than 60 local music programs. BLUME Haiti Director Janet Anthony with a student.
Rodney Noel was promoting artists in the Haitian music scene back in the 1990s when he and his business partner realized something was missing in Miami’s cultural landscape. There were outdoor ...
This Friday is the last chance for fans in the United States to catch the reunion of one of Haiti’s most popular Konpa bands, Carimi. The band, which broke up in 2016, reunited two years ago to ...
A mix of traditional Haitian music and pop songs played by a disc jockey echoed throughout the area, while marchers sang “La Dessalinienne,” the country’s national anthem.
Turn on your favorite urban contemporary Miami radio station and you will hear a rotation of hip-hop, dancehall, reggaeton and Afrobeats, the fast-rising music set to percussive African beats with ...