kompas - Haiti Music Video

The Famous Haitian Kompa band is back. It has been performing in several place since their reunification. For the first time, you will have the opportunity to watch the new Zin live.

This is also an opportunity to rate the new band.

So what do you think?

I have included some their best videos recorded during stage presentation.

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I have the honor to introduce to you a new band in the Haitian Kompas industry. The name is "Watchout". I just discovered the new band and I think It started very well.

From the beginning, the thing that caught my attention is the style. I am a Kompas Music lover and I can say that I have a sense for good music and the ability to detect talent when they come across. I feel that this new music band has so much talent and their future is very promising.

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Former Haitian beauty queen and model, Misty Jean is an accomplished performing artist, a dancer and singer. At age three, her mother enrolled her at the Lynn W. Rouzier Institute of Dance, and by age seven she had started an amateur singing career. She pursued her passion to Anglade College, where as choir soloist, she achieved local fame.

Her career blossomed as she performed with well-known entertainers, starred in a mobile phone commercial, and won several beauty contests. From 2001 to 2003, Misty Jean won Miss West Indies, Miss de la Francophonie, and Miami Mardi Gras Queen of Carnival.

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Les Ambassadeurs (LA) have been among a group of pioneer bands that began the Mini- Jazz music style in Haiti. Mini-Jazz evolved between 1964-1969, basing itself on the simple stylings of rock and roll bands from 1960-1964, before Britain's Beatles revolutionized the genré.

The new-style Kompa bands comprised an electric-lead and -rhythm guitars, electric bass, and polyrhythmic percussion instruments, defining Mini-Jazz. Frequently, the inclusion of a saxophone held down the melodic line. The Mini-Jazz movement took root in Port-au-Prince and its surrounding neighborhoods, led by innovative musician Shleu Shleu. The most noteworthy neighborhood bands, which grew to prominence along with LA, included Les Loups Noirs, Les Fantaisistes de Carrefour, Tabou Combo, Fréres Dé Jean, Les Difficiles, and Bossa Combo. They led the Mini-Jazz movement and other Caribbean countries soon followed suit.

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Kompa is a genre of music and a dance whose origin is from Haiti. It is usually written differently; compa or Konpa. The music has beats with tempo that is often rated as medium to fast. This kind of music genre is complex as it changes from time to time. It first came to be from a blending of European ballroom dancing and the Haiti culture.

This specific music genre arose in the early 20th century as a result of other genres like salsa and calypso among many others. The style referred to as Kompa direct was invented by a group of famous artists, however with its increasing fame it changed to the Zouk. Unfortunately the group split up and one of them improvised the above mentioned style once again. The two genres can be confused; however the Zouk has a slower tempo than the latter.

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It is no secret that the group Djakout Mizik has been the hottest craze in konpa music in the past several year. Since the release of their first hit song "Encore Encore", Djakout Mizik continues to post number-one konpa hits from 1987 to the present. It's almost impossible to argue with their success; Djakout has been very consistent, producing a string of hit albums, fun, and enjoyable music for their fans base. Whether it is in New York, Miami, Boston or Canada, Djakout headlines all major festivals and concerts. Djakout's live performances continue to sell out arenas in parts of Europe and Eastern United States.

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