Ram - Haiti Music Video

Here is a musical band you will not be able to enjoy this year during the Carnival. The Haitian Rasin band Ram is not on the official list for the National Kanaval in Cap-Haitian.

Here is a tast of their Kanaval. Men Bwa'w (Haiti Kanaval 2013) - RAM.

The musical style of RAM is a combination of Vodou rhythms with rock and roll, blues, funk music, and riffs from The Clash.

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RAM was formally created in 1990 by Richard A. Morse, his wife Lunise, and a group of folkloric musicians and dancers in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Richard would become the songwriter and lead male vocalist. Lunise became the lead female vocalist. The other band members were all recruited from Port-au-Prince, including some of the poorest neighborhoods in the city. The name of band, RAM, comes from Morse's initials Richard A. Morse.

Morse was born in Puerto Rico, but grew up in the town of Woodbridge, Connecticut in the United States. His father, Richard M. Morse, was an American academic sociologist and author, and his mother was a famous Haitian singer, Emerante de Pradine. Morse and the band began experimenting with the new sounds of rasin music. One of the most important musical movements that swept Haiti in the years following the exile of dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, mizik rasin, or simply rasin, combines elements of traditional Vodou ceremonical and folkloric music with rock and roll.

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