Music of Haiti, the Glossary
The music of Haiti combines a wide range of influences drawn from the diverse population that has settled on this Caribbean island.[1]
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105 relations: Accordion, Acoustic music, Africa, Afro-Caribbean music, Angola, Antilles, Ash Wednesday, Ayizan, Ballad, Barikad Crew, Beatboxing, Black power, Bob Marley, Boukan Ginen, Boukman Eksperyans, Bourgeoisie, Brazil, Cadence rampa, Cadence-lypso, Cap-Haïtien, Cape Verde, Capitalism, Carabinier, Carbine, Caribbean, Chicago, Classical music, Compas, Cuba, Culture of Haiti, Dessalines (disambiguation), Disco, Dreadlocks, Easter, El Sistema, Fèy, François Duvalier, France, French West Indies, Funk, Gede (Haitian Vodou), Guadeloupe, Guitar, Haïti Chérie, Haiti, Haitian art, Haitian Carnival, Haitian Creole, Haitian diaspora, Haitian hip hop, ... Expand index (55 more) »
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Accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German, from —"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame).
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Acoustic music
Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means.
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Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
Afro-Caribbean music
Afro-Caribbean music is a broad term for music styles originating in the Caribbean from the African diaspora.
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Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.
Antilles
The Antilles is an archipelago bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the south and west, the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest, and the Atlantic Ocean to the north and east.
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Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday is a holy day of prayer and fasting in many Western Christian denominations.
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Ayizan
Ayizan (also Grande Ai-Zan, Aizan, or Ayizan Velekete, Aisa, Mama Aisa) is the loa of the marketplace and commerce in Vodou, especially in Benin, Haiti and Suriname.
Ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.
Barikad Crew
Barikad Crew is a rap kreyòl (Haitian hip-hop) group from Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Beatboxing
Beatboxing (also beat boxing) is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of mimicking drum machines (typically a TR-808), using one's mouth, lips, tongue, and voice.
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Black power
Black power is a political slogan and a name which is given to various associated ideologies which aim to achieve self-determination for black people.
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Bob Marley
Robert Nesta Marley (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican reggae singer, guitarist, and songwriter.
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Boukan Ginen
Boukan Ginen is a mizik rasin band from the city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Boukman Eksperyans
Boukman Eksperyans (Boukman Experience) is a mizik rasin band from the city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Grammy nominated for their debut album Vodou Adjae.
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Bourgeoisie
The bourgeoisie are a class of business owners and merchants which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a "middle class" between peasantry and aristocracy.
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Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
Cadence rampa
Cadence rampa (kadans ranpa), or simply kadans, is a dance music and modern méringue popularized in the Caribbean by the virtuoso Haitian sax player Webert Sicot in the early 1960s. Cadence rampa was one of the sources of cadence-lypso. Genres: Caribbean and Latin America. Cadence and compas are two names for the same Haitian modern méringue.
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Cadence-lypso
Cadence-lypso is a fusion of cadence rampa from Haiti and calypso from Trinidad and Tobago that has also spread to other English speaking countries of the Caribbean.
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Cap-Haïtien
Cap-Haïtien (Kap Ayisyen; "Haitian Cape"), typically spelled Cape Haitien in English and often locally referred to as Le Cap, Okap or Au Cap, is a commune of about 274,000 people on the north coast of Haiti and capital of the department of Nord.
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Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelago and island country of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about.
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Capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.
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Carabinier
A carabinier (also sometimes spelled carabineer or carbineer) is in principle a soldier armed with a carbine, musket, or rifle, which became commonplace by the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe.
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Carbine
A carbine is a long gun that has a barrel shortened from its original length.
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Caribbean
The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.
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Chicago
Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.
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Classical music
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.
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Compas
Compas, also known as compas direct in French, konpa dirèk in Haitian Creole, or simply konpa but most commonly as Kompa, is a modern méringue dance music genre of Haiti.
Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.
Culture of Haiti
The culture of Haiti is a creolized blend of African, European and Taino elements due to the French colonization of Amerindian land (which was then renamed Saint-Domingue), in conjunction with the large diverse enslaved African population whom had later freed themselves by a successful revolt.
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Dessalines (disambiguation)
Dessalines can refer to.
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Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene.
Dreadlocks
Dreadlocks, also known as dreads or locs, are a hairstyle made of rope-like strands of hair.
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Easter
Easter, also called Pascha (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary.
El Sistema
El Sistema (which translates to The System) is a publicly financed, voluntary sector, music-education program, founded in Venezuela in 1975 by Venezuelan educator, musician, and activist José Antonio Abreu.
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Fèy
"Fèy" is a traditional Vodou folk song in Haiti.
François Duvalier
François Duvalier (14 April 190721 April 1971), also known as Papa Doc, was a Haitian politician who served as the president of Haiti from 1957 until his death in 1971.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
French West Indies
The French West Indies or French Antilles (Antilles françaises,; Antiy fwansé) are the parts of France located in the Antilles islands of the Caribbean.
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Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.
Gede (Haitian Vodou)
The Gede (Guede) are the family of lwa, spirits or deities associated with Ancestor worship in Haitian Vodou, that represent the powers of death and fertility.
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Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe (Gwadloup) is an overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean.
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Guitar
The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.
Haïti Chérie
"Haïti Chérie" (Dear Haiti) is a traditional patriotic song of Haiti of a poem written by Othello Bayard that was initially called it Souvenir d'Haïti ("Memory of Haiti") and composed to music in 1925.
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Haiti
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas.
Haitian art
Haitian art is a complex tradition, reflecting African roots with strong Indigenous, American and European aesthetic and religious influences.
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Haitian Carnival
Haitian Carnival (Kanaval, Carnaval) is a celebration held over several weeks each year leading up to Mardi Gras.
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Haitian Creole
Haitian Creole (kreyòl ayisyen,; créole haïtien), or simply Creole (kreyòl), is a French-based creole language spoken by 10 to 12million people worldwide, and is one of the two official languages of Haiti (the other being French), where it is the native language of the vast majority of the population.
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Haitian diaspora
Haiti has a sizable diaspora, present primarily in the United States, Panama, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Canada, France (including its French Caribbean territories), the Bahamas, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil and Chile.
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Haitian hip hop
Rap Kreyòl started in Haiti in the early ‘80s by the Late Great Master Dji, who witnessed how American Hip Hop gave birth to French Hip Hop while living in France. Music of Haiti and Haitian hip hop are Afro-Caribbean music.
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Haitian mythology
Haitian mythology consists of many folklore stories from different time periods, involving sacred dance and deities, all the way to Vodou.
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Haitian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution (révolution haïtienne or La guerre de l'indépendance; Lagè d Lendependans) was a successful insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti.
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Haitian rock
Haitian rock, or rock kreyòl, started as rock n roll in Haiti in the early 1960s.
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Haitian Vodou
Haitian Vodou is an African diasporic religion that developed in Haiti between the 16th and 19th centuries.
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Haitian Vodou drumming
Vodou drumming and associated ceremonies are folk ritual faith system of henotheistic religion of Haitian Vodou originated and inextricable part of Haitian culture. Music of Haiti and Haitian Vodou drumming are Afro-Caribbean music.
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Hip hop music
Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.
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Hippie
A hippie, also spelled hippy, especially in British English, is someone associated with the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during or around 1964 and spread to different countries around the world.
Hispaniola
Hispaniola (also) is an island in the Caribbean that is part of the Greater Antilles.
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An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork.
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Jazz Guignard
Jazz Guignard was a popular Haitian jazz musician in the 1930s.
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Jean-Claude Duvalier
Jean-Claude Duvalier (3 July 19514 October 2014), nicknamed "Baby Doc" (Bébé Doc, Bebe Dòk), was a Haitian politician who was the President of Haiti from 1971 until he was overthrown by a popular uprising in February 1986.
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Jimmy O
Jean Jimmy Alexandre (–), better known by his stage name Jimmy O, was a Haitian hip hop artist who was born in Port-au-Prince and lived in New York City.
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Kassav'
Kassav', also alternatively spelled Kassav, is a French Caribbean band that originated from Guadeloupe in 1979.
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La Dessalinienne
"La Dessalinienne" ("Desalinyèn"; "The Dessalines Song") is the national anthem of Haiti.
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Lent
Lent (Quadragesima, 'Fortieth') is the solemn Christian religious observance in the liturgical year commemorating the 40 days Jesus spent fasting in the desert and enduring temptation by Satan, according to the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, before beginning his public ministry.
Luthier
A luthier is a craftsperson who builds or repairs string instruments.
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Lwa
italic, also called loa, are spirits in the African diasporic religion of Haitian Vodou and Dominican Vúdu.
Mach-Hommy
Mach-Hommy is an American rapper and record producer of Haitian descent.
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Manbo (Vodou)
A manbo (also written as mambo) is a priestess (as opposed to a oungan, a male priest) in the Haitian Vodou religion.
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Martinique
Martinique (Matinik or Matnik; Kalinago: Madinina or Madiana) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea.
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Méringue
Méringue (mereng), also called méringue lente or méringue de salon (slow or salon méringue), is a dance music and national symbol in Haiti.
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Merengue music
Merengue is a type of music and dance originating in present day Dominican Republic which has become a very popular genre throughout Latin America, and also in several major cities in the United States with Latino communities.
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Michel Martelly
Michel Joseph Martelly (born 12 February 1961) is a Haitian musician and politician who was the President of Haiti from May 2011 until February 2016.
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Mini-jazz
Mini-jazz (mini-djaz) is a reduced méringue-compas band format of the mid-1960s characterized by the rock band formula of two guitars, one bass, and drum-conga-cowbell; some use an alto sax or a full horn section, while others use a keyboard, accordion or lead guitar.
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Nemours Jean-Baptiste
Nemours Jean-Baptiste (February 2, 1918 – May 18, 1985) was a Haitian saxophonist, writer, and band leader.
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Non-governmental organization
A non-governmental organization (NGO) (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government.
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Othello Bayard
Louis Achille Othello Bayard "de Cayes" (1885–1971) is a Haitian musician, violinist, poet, and composer.
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Oungan
Oungan (also written as houngan) is the term for a male priest in Haitian Vodou (a female priest is known as a mambo).
Pétion-Ville
Pétion-Ville (Petyonvil) is a commune and a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in the hills east and separate from the city itself on the northern hills of the Massif de la Selle.
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Peasant
A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or a farmer with limited land-ownership, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees, or services to a landlord. In Europe, three classes of peasants existed: non-free slaves, semi-free serfs, and free tenants.
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Penguin Books
Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.
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Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince (Pòtoprens) is the capital and most populous city of Haiti.
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Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.
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RAM (band)
RAM is a mizik rasin band based in the city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Rara music
Rara is a form of festival music that originated in Haiti that is used for street processions, typically during Easter Week.
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Rasin
Rasin, also known as Haitian roots music, is a musical style that began in Haiti in the 1970s when musicians began combining elements of traditional Haitian Vodou ceremonial and folkloric music with various musical styles. Music of Haiti and Rasin are Afro-Caribbean music.
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.
Rock and roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll or Rock n' Roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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Rock music
Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Saxophone
The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass.
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Son cubano
Son cubano is a genre of music and dance that originated in the highlands of eastern Cuba during the late 19th century.
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Spanish language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Sugar plantations in the Caribbean
Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were a major part of the economy of the islands in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
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Taíno
The Taíno were a historic Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, whose culture has been continued today by Taíno descendant communities and Taíno revivalist communities.
Tabou Combo
Tabou Combo is a Haitian compas band that was founded in 1968 in Pétion-Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince.
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Telethon
A telethon (a portmanteau of "television" and "marathon") is a televised fundraising event that lasts many hours or even days, the purpose of which is to raise money for a charitable, political or other cause.
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Temple University Press
Temple University Press is a university press founded in 1969 that is part of Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
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Toussaint Louverture International Airport
Toussaint Louverture International Airport (Ayewopò Entènasyonal Tousen Louvèti, Aéroport International Toussaint Louverture) is an international airport in Tabarre, a commune of Port-au-Prince in Haiti.
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Twoubadou
Twoubadou (Troubadour) music is a popular genre of guitar-based music from Haiti that has a long and important place in Haitian culture.
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Underground music
Underground music is music with practices perceived as outside, or somehow opposed to, mainstream popular music culture.
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Webert Sicot
Webert Sicot (1930 – February 1985) was a Haitian saxophone player, composer and band leader.
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Worldbeat
Worldbeat is a music genre that blends pop music or rock music with world music or traditional music.
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Wyclef Jean
Nel Ust Wyclef Jean (born October 17, 1969) is a Haitian rapper and record producer.
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Zouk
Zouk is a musical movement pioneered by the French Antillean band Kassav' in the early 1980s.
2010 Haiti earthquake
The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake that struck Haiti at 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010.
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See also
Afro-Caribbean music
- Afro-Caribbean music
- Calypso music
- Haitian Vodou drumming
- Haitian hip hop
- Kaiso
- Martha Ellen Davis
- Music of Haiti
- Rapso
- Rasin
- Systema Solar
- Taina Asili
- The Four Aces Club
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Haiti
Also known as Haitian folk music, Haitian music, Music in Haiti, Popular music of Haiti, Splash (Haitian band).
, Haitian mythology, Haitian Revolution, Haitian rock, Haitian Vodou, Haitian Vodou drumming, Hip hop music, Hippie, Hispaniola, Intentional community, Jazz Guignard, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Jimmy O, Kassav', La Dessalinienne, Lent, Luthier, Lwa, Mach-Hommy, Manbo (Vodou), Martinique, Méringue, Merengue music, Michel Martelly, Mini-jazz, Nemours Jean-Baptiste, Non-governmental organization, Othello Bayard, Oungan, Pétion-Ville, Peasant, Penguin Books, Port-au-Prince, Portugal, RAM (band), Rara music, Rasin, Reggae, Rock and roll, Rock music, Saxophone, Son cubano, Spanish language, Sugar plantations in the Caribbean, Taíno, Tabou Combo, Telethon, Temple University Press, Toussaint Louverture International Airport, Twoubadou, Underground music, Webert Sicot, Worldbeat, Wyclef Jean, Zouk, 2010 Haiti earthquake.