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Experience Haitian music on Mizikpam Internet Radio Accessed May 18, 2010; BBC Radio 3 Audio (45 minutes): Music of Haiti - part 1. Accessed November 25, 2010. BBC Radio 3 Audio (45 minutes): Music of Haiti - part 2. Accessed November 25, 2010. Report on haitian industry of music Accessed Oktober 14, 2018.
Twoubadou (Haitian Creole pronunciation:; French: Troubadour) music is a popular genre of guitar-based music from Haiti that has a long and important place in Haitian culture. The word comes from troubadour, a medieval poet-musician who wrote and sang songs about courtly love. Like the troubadours of old, the Haitian twoubadou is a singer ...
A good example is the talented Tito Paris dança ma mi Criola (1994), one of the most popular songs of all time in Cabo Verde; this CD contained music close to Haiti Tabou Combo, Caribbean Sextet, Tropicana and French Antilles Kassav', etc. Cape Verdean artists were exposed to zouk and compas in the US and France.
The lyrics are a mixture of English, Creole, and French, and many of the songs are narratives of the personal experiences of the band, or social commentary on current events in Haiti. "Boat People Blues" on the album Puritan Vodou, for example, offers a lament for the refugees who fled Haiti following the 1991 coup d'état.
His 1997 solo album, Wyclef Jean Presents The Carnival, featured konpa-inspired songs in Creole. ... 10 of them have videos on YouTube; 15 of them are confirmed hits; five are mega-hits, and I ...
Choucoune was recorded by "Katherine Dunham and her Ensemble" for the Decca album Afro-Caribbean Songs and Rhythms released in 1946 (with the title spelled as Choucounne), and was first recorded in Haiti by Emerante (Emy) de Pradines for her Voodoo - Authentic Music of Haiti album (Remington R-199-151) released in the US in 1953.
Albums by Haitian artists (3 C) D. ... Haitian styles of music (2 C, 14 P) Pages in category "Music of Haiti" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Val Jeanty, also known as Val-Inc, is a Haitian electronic music composer, turntablist, and professor at Berklee College of Music who evokes the musical esoteric realms of the creative subconscious self-defined as “Afro-Electronica.” She incorporates her African Haitian musical traditions into the present and beyond, combining acoustics ...