Vocalist - Haiti Music Video

Joe Jacques, a teacher, a musician, a singer, a lyricist, an accordionist and also a keyboard player was born in Gonaives on 25th may, 1936. We know very little about his childhood or early days of struggle all we know about him is that he was a blind at birth and he has never seen sunshine entire his life.

It is said that St-Vincent was the first institution that he joined in Port-Au-Prince for studies. When Joe was at the nineteenth year of his age, he took admission in Perkins School Boston, Massachusetts. Perkins was a special school for blinds; Joe Jacques studied there for four years and then came back to his loved land Haiti where he served as an English teacher for 11 years.

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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.

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The beautiful Caribbean island nation of Haiti is gifted with very talented musical artists that have been gaining international fame for the past decades. These great musicians have since been inspiring more and more upcoming artists, the youth, and Haitians in spreading the sound of Haitian music.

Misty Jean is by far one of the most popular Haitian musical artists of her generation. She sings in Haitian Creole, French, and even in English and is also an international model and fashion icon.

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Shaba is a Haitian national who has achieved much more than they would ever have thought in their childhood. He is both a conga player and background vocals in various music forms where he has so far established a great achievement and where he is set out to be a great player in the near future. There is a lot of achievement from his past life and definitely a great future for him but only if he does his things right.

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Haitian-African folk singer, Altiery Dorival, is known as a twoubadou (troubadour) musician. He sings in a raspy tenor voice, accompanying himself on Haitian banjo, similar to the American banjo.

Dorival's image is as a man of the people, singing about the lives of Haiti's poor masses, living their lives of grinding poverty with grace and an unsinkable spirit. But he can also play the role of bon vivant, decked out in a white suit and Panama hat.

The twoubadou tradition, in which Altiery Dorival sings and plays, has existed in Haiti for over half a century. Brought to Haiti's shores from Cuba at the start of the 20th century, Haitians soon claimed the music as its own. Twoubadou music expresses the bitter sweetness of peasant life, rife with earthy and risqué themes. Twoubadou singers, such as Dorival, have been and still are the voice of the people.

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Princes Anna Pierre is an accomplished public educationalist that has helped change many lives through her public health education programs dabbed Public Service Announcements, PSAs. Through use of public Radio and appearance in many concerts as well as public performances, Anna Pierre has managed to pass her message on HIV/Aids to many people. This is the case because her PSA program is aired on Radio, which is recorded in various languages including French, Spanish, English and Creole.

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He is one of the Haitian artists that over the years have achieved a great deal of achievements. Arly Lariviere has recorded many songs most of which have had him in the many top lists that are all over the entire world. He is thus considered one of the well doing artists from Haiti and as such a very highly regarded person in the country.

Arly Lariviere currently resides in the US though he was born and raised in Haiti where he also grew up to learn and develop an interest in music. Arly started singing at a very tender age and has since then been recording great hits that have been well received all over the world. He also has had a great career as a recording artist where he has been able to achieve a great deal of achievements.

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A music band from Haiti, the group Boukan Ginen or sometime spelled Guinen became serious and came together in 1990. It was started by lead vocalist Eddy Francois. Boukan means bonfire or fire pit while Ginen evolved in Haiti as the name for the ancestral home of enslaved Africans, probably originating from the country Guinea.

Eddy Francois, along with percussionist Evens Seney and guitarist Vladimir Jean-Felix all came to Boukan Ginen from the band Boukman Eksperyans. Proud of their Haitian heritage, Boukan Ginen were the winners of best carnival song at Haitian Carnival in 1991, for the song Pale Pale. They ushered in the presidency of Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a huge change for the country as a whole with a song which was later released on their debut album, Jou a Rive. The song title means "talk" and included lyrics widely interpreted as supporting the presidency of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

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A Haitian group that is indeed talented and has remained strong since its formation in 1994. The group Brothers Posse brought together four artists who considered themselves brothers. They already had their own identities in the music world long before they came together. "Don Kato" was a reggae musician, "Bobby Star" preferred gospel, "Easy one" was a rapper while "Top Richie" enjoyed dancehall.

Their coming together was an instant hit, and it has sustained the trend for a very long time. In 2003 alone, the group Brothers Posse had more than 250 performances, which makes a lot of other groups very envious of their record. Their music spans across roots, rap, reggae and rock. Their music is not limited to Haiti as it has traversed geographical barriers to reach places as far as the West Indies.

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Haitian-American Anna Pierre, entertainer and public health nurse, bridges her worlds in a unique way. She has crafted public service announcements (PSAs), to educate the public on HIV/AIDS transmission and its prevention.

Anna Pierre, when not performing, works as a Registered Nurse at Miami, Florida's, Jackson Memorial Hospital. She earned her Master's Degree in Public Health at Florida International University, doing research on the causes, transmission rates, and nature of communicable diseases.

Anna Pierre started a non-profit in 1990, APHEC, an education program designed to disseminate information on HIV/AIDS.

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