How the Gypsies de Petion Ville are changing Konpa Industry

Updated December 31, 2012 6:27 PM

Gypsies de Petion Ville was founded in 1972 by two well-known musicians, Robert Martino and Pierrot Al Khal. These two were best known in playing Konpa music due to their unique talents coupled with creativity. In fact, Robert Martino started playing guitar and went public with his music, when he was about 16 years of age. He performed in various bands before creating one of its own bands, Gypsies de Petion Ville. However, he did not stop at that. He created more bands as time went by and as he met other talented persons in the music industry.

Konpa Music is very popular in the Haitian audience. In fact, it has its cultural origins in Haiti. For successful paying of the Konpa music, a number of instrumentals were important. This includes drums, cowbell, guitars, keyboards, horn section, modern synthesizer and Conga. Many groups of musicians who played this kind of music enjoyed popularity during the 60s through 90s due to the uniqueness of the base mainstream. It therefore follows that the music attracted many audiences during this period of popularity.

As time went by, Robert Martino introduced a new generation of sounds. As the co-founder of Gypsies de Petion Ville, he created a mini Jazz style thus creating diversity to the Konpa music. He also introduced all the guitar sound effects to the Konpa music.

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