Jean-Baptiste Nemours

Slowing the rhythms and simplifying the melodies from the merengue, Jean-Baptise Nemours produced a new design of dance music, konpa, and ushered the music of Haiti into contemporary times. Using its straight-ahead defeat propelled by bass drum, snare drum, hi head wear, and cowbells, the musical design had dancers on the feet through the entire past due ’50s and ’60s. A normal performer at features for dictator Francois Duvalier, Nemours challenged Les Jazz De Jeune and saxophonist Webert Scott’s Super Outfit Compas Immediate for the proper to be known as “most successful music group in Haiti.”