Haiti Music Video

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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Jean-Michel Daudier comes from a creative background, his family always playing or singing or writing poetry. At the age of 15, Daudier picked up a broken guitar to play and started down a path towards the fame he would achieve later in life. That fame occurred in 1986, when a protest song he wrote Lem pa we soley became popular. Daudier penned it for Radio Soleil, as a protest against the Duvalier regime of Haiti.

Distributed underground with the singer unidentified, the citizens of Port-au-Prince made it into an anthem.

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Les Loup Noires is a multi talented group of individuals whose music is still sweet to the ear of the listener. In fact, the audience has grown and is still growing in Haiti, Paris and New York as well as U.S.A in general. The group is best known for its compositions of Compas genre of music. Under the leadership of Henri Pigniat, the group also composed songs of Jazz style, a style that made their music unique and sweet to listen to by many of their audience. It should be noted that the different combinations of the talents of the group members propelled the group to higher heights of success for a long time.

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In 1976,two brothers Andre Pasket and Claude Pasket founded the Magnum Band. The two brothers were well known in the Haitian music scene and many people considered them as voices to reckon with as far as the Haitian music was concerned. In fact, Dadou as Andre was also called, was an acknowledged vocalist, guitar player, composer as well as an author while his brother Claude, also known as Tico, was amongst the top drummer and percussionist in Haiti. These unique combinations of talents have made the band popular as it has maintained their style of performance in the region thus gaining much respect in the area. In fact, it is the longest surviving band for the past 30 years.

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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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Born in 1983 in Haiti, Misty Jean's star in singing started shining as early as 3 years. She was popular with dance institute of Lynn William Rouzier. In the institution, she learned many dancing styles as well as singing. By the age of 7 years, Misty Jean could sing and move the crowd in her manner and ingenuity in singing. She joined various amateur singing contests and emerged top among her competitors. These victories at an early age saw her develop passion for singing. He could later make singing her career of choice.

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After leaving their homeland Carlo Vieux, Richard Cavé, and Mickael Guirand joined forces and branded their group CaRiMi; derived from the first two letters of each of their first names.

They worked together in Haiti about 10 years ago before a great reunion in New York. Carlo Vieux, Richard Cavé, and Mickael Guirand are great friends and musicians from Haiti who have purposed to make music their lifetime career.

The trio took time in studio preparing beats and new sounds that had never been aired in Haiti. After several months they came out with new lyrics focusing on the social and political problems of Haiti. The song titled "Ayiti Bang, Bang" was released in 2001. That summer the group became famous in their motherland being the first young bands to sing about the insecurity and political problems of Haiti.

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Djakout Mizik is a 7 member compass band that is best known by its slow jazzy styles of music. Many of their fans at that time identified with their performances leading to the band crowned the best carnival band in Haiti for performing Kal, with noticeable energy. This marked the turning point of their fame. In fact, the great energy they had put into performance of the hit, took the audience and the charges by surprise. This is the case because changing their style of performance was unexpected and that it is as if they had opened the gates of their ingenuity during the performance.

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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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Kreyol La has created a name for itself in the kompa music industry in Haiti. The band is known for various genres such as country and jazz. With their music, Kreyol La has gained a wide following as it continues to develop and evolve. Kreyol La frontman Maestro Ti Joe Zenny once said that the band has focused on songs that people would definitely love and relate to.

Ti Joe Zenny has contributed a lot to Kreyol La's popularity. He was once named Alpha Man of the Month by Haitian International Pulse magazine for his charisma and talent. In an interview with the magazine, Ti Djo described himself as a simple and neat man. He talked about how an artist can choose whether to heed everything that the public wants or be someone that can guide people through their artistry.

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