Zin Music Video

The Famous Haitian Kompa band is back. It has been performing in several place since their reunification. For the first time, you will have the opportunity to watch the new Zin live.

This is also an opportunity to rate the new band.

So what do you think?

I have included some their best videos recorded during stage presentation.

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Haiti's Kompa is considered to be the country's national music genre and Alex Abellard plays this style of music. Also called Compas, the music genre that is often accompanied by dance has expanded its reach to the rest of the Caribbean, as well as in the United States, Canada, France, and Africa. It gave birth to numerous singers and bands in Haiti that have gained both national and international fame and have performed all around the world.

The band Zin is one of the new generations of Kompas musicians in Haiti. It was founded in the 1980s by musician Alex Abellard. Other Zin members, past and present, are Alan Cave, Carry Legagneur, Daphne Dary, Eddy Saint-Vil, Gaby Catin, Jack Barbot, Patrick Apollon, Romeo DeVolcy, Virginia Mahotiere, and many others. The group has since released about twenty albums and is known for the songs' "Chokola", "Pa Okipi Li", "Falling", "De la tete aux peids", and "Hasta La Vista".

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