Robert Martino - Haiti Music Video

Gypsies de Petion Ville was founded in 1972 by two well-known musicians, Robert Martino and Pierrot Al Khal. These two were best known in playing Konpa music due to their unique talents coupled with creativity. In fact, Robert Martino started playing guitar and went public with his music, when he was about 16 years of age. He performed in various bands before creating one of its own bands, Gypsies de Petion Ville. However, he did not stop at that. He created more bands as time went by and as he met other talented persons in the music industry.

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Robert Charlot, a natural born musician who first started with classical piano and gospel music with his mother and cousins help, is the one who introduced the digital format and style to Konpa music when he formed Top Vice few years back. He's known as a keyboard player with the ability to write hit songs, produce program keys/drums, arrange and sing but in reality he plays almost all instruments, does his own recording, a real "L'homme orchestre" who also has his own record label.

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James Cardozo is a singer in the Haitian Group T-Vice. The T-Vice musical group was formed in 1991. James Cardozo and his friend Gerald Kebreau joined the group which was by then comprised of two brothers, Roberto and Reynaldo Martino, sons of renowned Haitian guitarist Robert Martino of the classic Top Vice band. The group appeared in the hit single Party By The Sea along with rapper Wyclef Jean and Jamaican reggae artist Buju Banton. The band mainly does kompa type of music. Musical influences from reggae, merengue, flamenco and modern synthesizing from Ansyto, Fabrice Rouzier, Robert Charlot and Mickey rock 'n' roll have made the group one of the most innovative musicians of the genre.

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Jessie Al Khal is believed to be the only mother to talented musicians, a wife to a great and popular guitarist and a musician herself. She was born and raised in Haiti where she started her career and where she was able to easily make it out of being a great and loved artist. She then got married to her husband Robert Martino and they had two sons Roberto and Reynaldo Martino.

It was a great achievement in which they all got to be very famous and known all throughout the country and as such they got it a great. It was the great achievement of the brother in establishing one of the most famous bands in the country that the family got noticed and that it got the kind of reception it needed.

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