Jean Michel Daudier Music Video

A legendary Haitian singer and songwriter Jean Michel Daudier encouraged and assembled thousands of Haitian both at home and abroad with his songs during the latest revolution of Haiti. He was a multi talented musician having good command on guitar, piano, synthesizer, ensemble and orchestra.

Daudier came in limelight in 1986 because of his protest song 'Lem pa we soley la' which means 'When I don't see the Sunshine'. The release shook the Duvalier regime and fuelled up revolution. The song earned enormous popularity and sold anonymously.

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Jean-Michel Daudier comes from a creative background, his family always playing or singing or writing poetry. At the age of 15, Daudier picked up a broken guitar to play and started down a path towards the fame he would achieve later in life. That fame occurred in 1986, when a protest song he wrote Lem pa we soley became popular. Daudier penned it for Radio Soleil, as a protest against the Duvalier regime of Haiti.

Distributed underground with the singer unidentified, the citizens of Port-au-Prince made it into an anthem.

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