Jean-Michel Daudier Celebrates Life in His Music

Updated December 31, 2012 5:59 PM

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.

Jean Michel Daudier, beloved by thousands of fans who often join him in song, inspires and touches, rousing them to sing in unison with him. He is a versatile musician, who plays synthesizer, piano, and guitar, equally at home performing as a solo artist, in a group, or with a full orchestra backing him.

Daudier issued two well-received albums in Haiti, Soley La and Diaspora. His newest release Nou Tout Samble (We All Look the Same) can be read on two levels: the first refers to racial bias exercised by one ethnicity towards another (they all look alike), and the second that we are all of the human race (we are all one).
Daudier blends many influences in creating his music. There is "Dance All Night" (Haitian percussion and Latin melodies) and "Living Together" (a graceful, sensuous rhumba). His music is danceable, with great hooks, and translates easily into French, English, and Creole.

Now living in Miami, Florida, he regularly tours the U.S., Caribbean, Canada, and Europe, performing alone or with other groups, and gracing concert stages of the Brooklyn Academy of Music or the World Beat Music clubs such as Sounds of Brazil

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