Zouk Machine - Haiti Music Video

Born in 1966, Tanya Saint-Val grew up in the music world. When Tanya Saint-Val was still only a little girl, she was already imitating her grandmother singing operetta. Aged nine, she sang on an album of traditional music with her father, a guitarist, singer and professional composer.

After a spell with the Vikings de Guadeloupe, she joined the Daniel Forestal orchestra, where she met Dominique Zorobabel, a future singer with Zouk Machine. At the same time, she continued singing Ella Fitzgerald songs at local dances in Guadeloupe. She then met Pierre-Edouard Decimus, manager of the group Kassav, who introduced her to the French Caribbean recording studios, where she soon got regular work as a backing singer.

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Sonia Dersion is a singer of Zouk Caribbean. She was born on January 14, 1971. This is the title "Tou piti" on the album'S GIANT in 1994 which revealed to the public.

Sonia Dersion, a native of the Antilles, is an artist who is not his first coup d'essai. "Tout va bien" released in 1997, had already sold more than 80 000 copies with the success of the song "Natirel" sacred in September 2000 as the best for the year 1999 the Tropical Music Awards. His second album "Initiation" directed by Willy Salzedo, was tinged with an opus africanisées music and rhythms inspired by R'N'B Kaysha in person. So after many collaborations with, among others, Richard Burmese, Tony Deloumeau, Jean Michel Rotin, Tanya St Val, Zouk Machine, Thierry Cham ... Sonia also participated in humanitarian projects such as the album "New World" for disadvantaged children. Today, Sonia Dersion delivers his new album, more sincere than ever, entitled "The 4 seasons Sonia Dersion." An album fresh, intimate directed by Joel Grédoire where one of the great ladies of Zouk unfolds for our greatest pleasure.

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