tabou combo - Haiti Music Video

The World Creole Music Festival (WCMF) will be held in Roseau, Dominica's Windsor Park Stadium during October, 2014. The acts headlining the festival this year are Haiti's own Tabou Combo, along with Jah Cure of Jamaica. This is the 18th year the festival has been held and is considered one of the Caribbean region's annual premiere music events. The announcement of the festival's 2014 theme, "Creole Runs the Night" was made to the media on June 25th by Dominica's tourism department, Discover Dominica Authority.

Read more →  

On 19th of July 2013, Big Night hosted the kings of konpa Tabou combo. This legendary band was celebrating 45 years of offering top Haitian music. Also in the house was DJ Mack of mizikpam.com. There was a special treat in the gallery featuring some of the best photographs Luis Olazabal has taken during the first two years of big night in Little Haiti.

This was an opportunity to re-live a magic night with photos. The night also featured delicious kreyol cuisine from Leela's Lakay, at the bar was an ice-cold prestige beer, and more. The Positive Impact Foundation and kose Famn sponsored the kid's hand-on art activities. The Little Haiti Cultural centre hosts the big Night in Little Haiti every 3rd Friday, free.

Read more →  

Here is the group Tabou Combo Feat. Michel Martelly in the song Yo. Being president will not stop President Michel martelly from performing as a musician. At least this is what he has been demonstrated recently. He has conducted many shows recently.

Haiti's singer-turned-president recently performed for a rare concert. He performed under his old stage name of "Sweet Micky" as he celebrates 25 years as an entertainer. The proceeds for the show which was not revealed in term of amount is to go to the Rose and White Foundation, a charity organization that presidentand his wife runs.

Read more →  

A legendary Haitian singer and songwriter Jean Michel Daudier encouraged and assembled thousands of Haitian both at home and abroad with his songs during the latest revolution of Haiti. He was a multi talented musician having good command on guitar, piano, synthesizer, ensemble and orchestra.

Daudier came in limelight in 1986 because of his protest song 'Lem pa we soley la' which means 'When I don't see the Sunshine'. The release shook the Duvalier regime and fuelled up revolution. The song earned enormous popularity and sold anonymously.

Read more →  

Les Ambassadeurs (LA) have been among a group of pioneer bands that began the Mini- Jazz music style in Haiti. Mini-Jazz evolved between 1964-1969, basing itself on the simple stylings of rock and roll bands from 1960-1964, before Britain's Beatles revolutionized the genré.

The new-style Kompa bands comprised an electric-lead and -rhythm guitars, electric bass, and polyrhythmic percussion instruments, defining Mini-Jazz. Frequently, the inclusion of a saxophone held down the melodic line. The Mini-Jazz movement took root in Port-au-Prince and its surrounding neighborhoods, led by innovative musician Shleu Shleu. The most noteworthy neighborhood bands, which grew to prominence along with LA, included Les Loups Noirs, Les Fantaisistes de Carrefour, Tabou Combo, Fréres Dé Jean, Les Difficiles, and Bossa Combo. They led the Mini-Jazz movement and other Caribbean countries soon followed suit.

Read more →  

Most of us will never know the sacrifices that Roger "Shoubou" Eugene, has made in order to make us "baissez bas" nan "ryel" la. How do you give the fans what they paid for, night after night?

Shoubou and his band Tabou Combo de Petionville has established a blueprint for Konpa music that is recognized and copied throughout the world. Tabou Combo set the standard by which all bands that followed are measured. The band went places and reached plateaus that no other Haitian bands have come close to achieving. They broke through the barriers, as well as the borders of Haiti to attain international success, and, amazingly, maintained that success for many decades.

Read more →  

Tabou Combo's music expresses itself with a driving, pulsating, and danceable beat. Transcending cultural barriers, they sing in Spanish, English, French, or Créole, their music a heady blend of meringue, rara, and voodoo percussion influences. The band's sound is a joyous mix of polyrhythmic instruments, piano, guitars, and a small horn section.

Tabou Combo does not restrict itself to only producing dance music. Many of the band's songs deal with current issues that concern Haiti citizens, such as corruption, prejudice, poverty, and violence. To bring attention to these issues and the consequent negative effect it produces for Haiti's reputation, the band has formed a foundation, Eat, Read and Hope. Its goal is to raise funds to provide solutions for Haiti's two most pressing social issues, education and food insufficiency.

Read more →  

Tabou Combo has been the leading Konpa band in Haiti for over three decades. They began as Los Incognitos of Pétionville in 1968, rapidly achieving their first taste of success, Haiti Radio's "Best Musical Group of the Year" award. At the end of 1970, they relocated to New York, as Tabou Combo, and with a new band head, Jean-Claude Jean. It was there their career took off, resulting in fans on all major continents of the globe.
The band's mega-hit, "New York City" sold a million copies in 1974, and their 1989 album, The Antilles, charted at number one in Europe and the Caribbean, winning them "Best Album for Haitian Dance Music" in 1991.

Read more →  

Ralph Condé, a Haitian-American musician, was born in New York in 1969. He is a self-taught guitarist, who began playing at seven years of age. He broke into the music scene at age 16, and soon became a success playing and singing in the group Papash, who topped the charts with several smash albums.

As a singer-songwriter- arranger and head of his own record company, Condé has played with many Haitian and Caribbean musicians, with his gypsy lifestyle sending him to perform for audiences, in concert venues, over all Latin America, Africa, and Europe.

Read more →