Haiti Music Video

Jean-Claude Eugene is considered to be Haiti's Renaissance man. He has achieved success as a singer, musician, arranger, conductor, actor, and finance professional.

He began singing and playing music while enrolled at schools in Cap Haïtien. During those years, he played trombone in his school band and sang for the Petit Orchestre.

In high school, Jean-Claude co-founded ACNDA, made up of music students, who attended schools in Cap Haïtien. Some of the group's members, who later achieved recognition, were La Riviere Rouge, Le Torrent, Gouverneurs de la Rosee, and Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Becoming well-known around Cap Haïtien for his tenor voice, he was invited to sing with Chorale Solidarite du Sacre-Coeur. They made an album De Men Kontre, featuring Jean-Claude as solo artist.

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Jean-Robert Hariss of Mini-Jazz group, D.P. Express, lost his life to a long-standing illness in 2008. He began his music career with the group in the latter part of the 60s, known back then as Les Difficiles de Pétion-Ville, part of the exploding Mini-Jazz movement. The movement began in neighborhoods surrounding Port-au-Prince in the mid-sixties.

Known affectionately as Porky to his family, friends, and other musicians, Jean-Robert Hariss earned critical acclaim as an outstanding electric bassist. As a leader at the forefront of Mini-Jazz, he helped to revolutionize the Kompa genre, Haiti's pop-dance music. A talented arranger and song-lyricist, he co-produced the 1980 major-hit single "David".

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Haiti's Kompa is considered to be the country's national music genre and Alex Abellard plays this style of music. Also called Compas, the music genre that is often accompanied by dance has expanded its reach to the rest of the Caribbean, as well as in the United States, Canada, France, and Africa. It gave birth to numerous singers and bands in Haiti that have gained both national and international fame and have performed all around the world.

The band Zin is one of the new generations of Kompas musicians in Haiti. It was founded in the 1980s by musician Alex Abellard. Other Zin members, past and present, are Alan Cave, Carry Legagneur, Daphne Dary, Eddy Saint-Vil, Gaby Catin, Jack Barbot, Patrick Apollon, Romeo DeVolcy, Virginia Mahotiere, and many others. The group has since released about twenty albums and is known for the songs' "Chokola", "Pa Okipi Li", "Falling", "De la tete aux peids", and "Hasta La Vista".

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Accolade de New York is a compas band that changed its group line-up from album to album, with a many as 12 group members and as few as six. Their first album La Foi, released in 1980, showed a cover photo of eleven priestly figures with large, white crucifixes superimposed on their religious garments. It made record buyers sit up and take notice. What were they all about?

On this debut LP, they added chants to the typical compas instrument mix. On tracks you hear alto and tenor saxes, trombone, guitar and bass guitar, congas, bongos, and other percussion instruments. Accolade de New York recorded eight releases over the 18 years they were together, using the LP format for all except their last release Koze Kredi, which they released as a CD in 1997.

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Alain Moraille, who goes by the stage name, Jahnesta, is a Haitian musician. He plays reggae and ska, his biggest musical influence--no surprise here--Bob Marley. He sings and plays in an original style, using 70s reggae and ska to imbue his music with a retro feel.

In his mid-twenties, Jahnesta's astounding beauty has surely broken more than a few hearts. And his has weathered a few as well, judging by the barely discernable vulnerability hiding behind his searching and striking green eyes.

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Nu Look is one of Haiti's most influential and popular Konpa bands to date. But due to the growing conflicts among its members, chances of the band ever playing music again is highly improbable as of the moment. They have been cancelling their gigs and appearances both inside and outside Haiti for the past months.

After the argument between Nu Look's Pipo and Maestro Arly Lariviere during one of their gigs, the two are rumoured to not be in speaking terms with each other. And both are planning on releasing a solo album amidst the controversial conflict within the band.

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The rumors about Pipo have been confirmed and we all saw it coming. Pipo has officially given his resignation letter to Nu-Look Maestro Arly Lariviere

I guess the statement "Piyay Pou Pipo" no longer stands.

This resignation letter actually put an end to many rumors that have been circulating recently in the media about the current relationship between Pipo and Nu-Look. before resigning the band, the lead singer of Nu-Look said that he heard several scenarios in the media such as him leaving Nu look, him recruiting members to form his own band even him getting back with Beljazz.

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Haitian music artist Stanley Toussaint has emerged from some well-deserved time off to promote his new recording "Lover". He collaborated with Florida Sexy Beef to make the record, reminding fans he is as current and relevant as ever. Advance word has spread about "Lovers", said to be Tantan'n's best single since he began recording professionally. But there has also been criticism that if Tantan'n needs to work with un-established talent to keep his career going, he might as well retire.

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We have learned that the Haitian Kompa group CARIMI is set to release their new music album soon. The big news however is that the group will bring something totally new in this new album.

My question is that will the audience accept the changes with CARIMI?

And that is the $1,000,000 question !

According to CARIMI Manager Fito Farinen, the core style of the band remains. However, in this new album all the group is trying to do is to attempt new style and see how the public reacts. He also said that the innovation came mainly from Carlo and Richard
On the other hand, many hard core fans of the band expressed their opinion on this attempt to change the style of CARIMI. Here is what I have heard so far:

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Haiti President Michel Martelly is all set to take center stage with his music in order to help those in need. National Palace spokesman Enrique Mari announced that Martelly will share the stage with Spanish singer Julio Iglesias during a fundraising concert in the Dominican Republic on December 28. The proceeds that will be generated by the concert at the city of La Romana will go straight to First Lady Sophia Martelly's charity.

A list of Julio Iglesias Music Videos.....

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