malavoi - Haiti Music Video

Since 1972, Malavoi band has been active in the music industry. It is a Martinican band consisting of five members namely: Mano Cesaire, Jean-Paul Soime, Christian de Negri, Denis Dantin and Marcel Remion. They are known for their music that has a touch of different genres such as Zouk, Kadans, Biguine, and World Beat.

The name Malavoi originated from a kind of sugarcane and a name of a street in a Senegalese island called Goree. Most of the members have also been a part of a band coming from the Lycee Schoelcher. They also studied music at Colette Franz.

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The Haitian musician Beethova Obas was born in 1964. His father named Charles Obas was a popular painter who disappeared in October 1969 after a clear demonstration in front of the palace of the president located at Port-au-Prince.

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Edith Lefel (November 1963, Cayenne - 20 January 2003, Dreux) was a French singer born in French Guiana.

She grew up in Martinique and has become a popular zouk-love singer. Her popular career began in 1984, when she worked with Jean-Michel Cabrimol's Maffia.

Edith Lefel began working with the big band Malavoi in 1987. Her last recent album came out in 2002, and used elements of beguine, mazurka and merengue. She died in her sleep. Autopsy results revealed a combination of smoking and birth control pills as the cause of her demise.

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