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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 ...
Styles of music unique to the nation of Haiti include music derived from rara parading music, twoubadou ballads, mini-jazz rock bands, rasin movement, hip hop Creòle, the wildly popular compas, [1] and méringue as its basic rhythm. Haitian music is influenced mostly by European colonial ties and African migration (through slavery).
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.
Haitian artist Paul Beaubrun, right, closes out Haiti’s Pap Jazz Festival in January 2023 in the northern city of Cap-Haitien. Beaubrun’s parents are members of the Grammy-nominated band ...
Jou a Rive is the debut album by the Haitian band Boukan Ginen, released in 1995. [3] [4] It was originally released in Haiti in 1993. Most of the lyrics were sung in Creole. [5] "Pale Pale W" had been voted Best Carnival Song at Haitian Carnival. [6] The band supported the album with a North American tour. [7]
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.
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 ...
Charles Andre Dorismond (born November 4, 1964), better known by his stage name Bigga Haitian, is a Haitian musician and singer who rose to fame in the 1990s. He is known as "the first Haitian singer to break into the Jamaican reggae scene", [1] tearing down national and cultural walls and paving the way for the next generation of Haitian artists.