Haiti Music Video

This band is well known as Shah-Shah #1. It is a Haitian band that composes and sings the Compas music. The Skah Shah was established in the year 1974.

It was made up of well known and reputable Haitian music such as Jean Elie Telfort, Jean Michel, Cubano, Loubert Chancy and Saint Victor AKA Zouzoul. This was a group of very excellent artists and who had gained some recognition in the Haitian music industry.

The Shak Shah band made its first recording in the year 1974 and one of the songs that made a hit included Sentiment, Caroline, Ozanana, Bel Ti Machande and Macho man. These are just some of the few songs that led to the growth of the fame of the band.

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Ralph Conde is a Haitian guitarist. He was born and raised up in Haiti. His mother bought him a guitar at the age of six years as a gift. This made him to aspire to be a guitarist. He was greatly inspired by other artists within and out of Haiti. Bearing in mind that Haiti was full of artists, Ralph was able to meet various local sounds such as kompa, troudour, rara and meringue. His role models artists were Robert Martino and Dadou Pasquet.

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What do you know about our Twoubadou Music?

Twoubadou music is a very popular form of guitar-based Haitian music which was brought back by Haitian migrant laborers who went to work on Cuban sugar plantations at the turn of the century. The music and its lyrics usually conjured up images of true love and lasting relationships.

Although it is considered as old style, today Twoubadou musicis are making a comeback among groups like Mizik Mizik, T-Vice, K-Dans, Zenglen, Sweet Micky, and others bands that are popular among the younger crowds.

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Kompa music to Haitians is like rock music to Americans. Inherent to the culture, a reflection of its spirit, and an embedded part of everyday life, heard everywhere. The Kompa genré began around 60 years ago in Haiti, its slow-paced meringue rhythms distinct from the Dominican Republic's faster-paced merengue. Played mainly in a minor key, Kompa lovers define it as jazz-influenced, pulsating, serpentine, and Créole-flavored.

Nemours Jean-Baptiste , a Haitian sax player, created Kompa, a blend of calypso and meringue influences, and an off-shoot of the Dominican Republic's merengue. Key to understanding Kompa is an awareness of the Haitian people's history of suffering. Haiti has endured 32 coup d'etats, devastating poverty, and frequent natural disasters, 2010's earthquake the most recent national crisis. Music writer, Vanessa Francklin, sums up the character of Kompa, saying, "this is the music of a people that has long suffered and still suffers."

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Ralph Conde was born in 1969 in New York. He is a musician, a vocalist, a composer and recording studio owner. He discovered his passion for music at the age of 7 years when he got his first guitar. He perfected his passion and at the age of 16 he appeared on the music scene.

He performed with a group by the name Papash in the mid 80's. They had so many albums but their best selling albums were Gade Yo, Feeling Papash and Yon Ti Foli. In 1994 Papash changed into Vag with some of the former members. He composed many songs and used them in collaborations with many artists, both from Haiti and Caribbean. He has performed all over the world with the group Tabou Combo which he joined in 1996. He also joined Nu look in 2004.

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