Patrick St-Eloi - Haiti Music Video

Born in 1966, Tanya Saint-Val grew up in the music world. When Tanya Saint-Val was still only a little girl, she was already imitating her grandmother singing operetta. Aged nine, she sang on an album of traditional music with her father, a guitarist, singer and professional composer.

After a spell with the Vikings de Guadeloupe, she joined the Daniel Forestal orchestra, where she met Dominique Zorobabel, a future singer with Zouk Machine. At the same time, she continued singing Ella Fitzgerald songs at local dances in Guadeloupe. She then met Pierre-Edouard Decimus, manager of the group Kassav, who introduced her to the French Caribbean recording studios, where she soon got regular work as a backing singer.

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Among the best songwriters based in Guadeloupe, Jimmy Devarieux is already well known for his talent and skill in songwriting. In 1996, he joined "Kwebee" a certain group in Guadeloupe after studying singing jazz and more at Centre for Information and Activities Musicales de Bordeaux.

With the group, he finally releases "Magic Dream", "Annie" and also "Bye Bye baby" which were his singles. As a member of the group, he also got the chance to participate briefly in "Antilles on the Seine" a film by Pascal LEGITIMUS.

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