Richard Morse - Haiti Music Video

There is no longer a reason to wait anymore. This comes with the late and surprising release of the 2014 Kanaval meringue from the group Ram. This is a bery beautiful kanaval as Ram stayed in a carnival anthem Kouzen zaka.

"Kouzen, nan pwen WOB pwen jipon"

The beautiful voice of their singer Lunise singing this year on a mixture of rabòday and petro.

The group Maestro, Richard Morse was not happy with the exclusion of Ram from the Kanaval Parade in Gonaives this year. This is actually the second year that the Martelly government has prevented their participation.

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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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