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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 ...
Bigga Haitian, reggae musician; Hoax, alternative rock band including Frantz N. Cesar of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent; Lee Holdridge, multi-award-winning Haitian-born composer and orchestrator; Wyclef Jean, Grammy Award-winning Haitian rapper, musician and actor; J-Live, rapper, DJ and producer; Jacki-O, rapper
For family reasons, Michel Mauléart Monton was raised in Haiti by his older sister, Odila Monton, who owned a shop on the Rue du Magasin de l'Etat in Port-au-Prince. Subsequently, he attended music classes with Toureau Lechaud who was a well-respected Haitian musician [1] and taught him the piano. [3]
Frantz Casseus (14 December 1915 – 3 June 1993) [1] was a Haitian-American guitarist and composer. Born and raised in Port-au-Prince , Haiti , he spent most of his adult life in the United States where he immigrated in 1946 hoping to meet pianist Fats Waller . [ 2 ]
Michel Joseph Martelly [1] (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl ʒozɛf maʁtɛli]; born 12 February 1961 [2]) is a Haitian musician and politician who served as the 42nd president of Haiti from May 2011 until February 2016. On August 20, 2024, the United States sanctioned the former president for trafficking drugs, in particular cocaine, into the ...
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 ...
21st-century Haitian musicians (1 C, 8 P) Haitian musicians by genre (3 C) * Works by Haitian musicians (2 C) C. Haitian composers (1 C, 13 P) Haitian women composers ...
Named after the biblical scholar John Wycliffe, [13] Wyclef Jean was born in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti [2] on October 17, 1969. [14] At nine years old, he emigrated with his family to Brooklyn, New York City, and ultimately settled in East Orange and Newark, New Jersey.