The year was 1983, and Jacob Desvarieux was on tour with his French-Caribbean party band in Haiti when inspiration hit. Sitting inside a Port-au-Prince hotel, the singer-guitarist took pen to paper ...
Thousands of Haitian and Caribbean music fans are expected for South Florida's annual Haitian Compas Festival. The French-Caribbean band Kassav will make a rare Florida appearance at the Saturday ...
16th Annual Haitian Compas Festival to feature more than a dozen bands including Kassav, Tabou Combo
The year was 1983, and Jacob Desvarieux was on tour with his French-Caribbean party band in Haiti when inspiration hit. Sitting inside a Port-au-Prince hotel, the singer-guitarist took pen to paper ...
In the past eight months — with little fanfare and even less publicity — a Haitian music scene has been budding in Broward County. Since November, a Haitian record store has opened in Fort Lauderdale; ...
Chances are that if you live in Miami-Dade County, you have at one time or another heard the swirling, merengue-tinged rhythms emanating from homes in Caribbean neighborhoods or rising from strip ...
Sometimes you want music to work out all the stress and angst that built up throughout your day. And, sometimes, you just want to zouk. And party you will, when internationally famous French-Caribbean ...
One of the Caribbean’s greatest cultural exports to the rest of the world has been its music. From the relaxed grooves of reggae to the infectious rhythms of soca, the high-energy beats from dancehall ...
Ha itian art, culture, literature, and music have evolved into dizzying mixtures of Caribbean, Cuban, African, indigenous, and European influences. Despite Haiti’s long suffering in most areas of ...
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