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Frantz Casseus is a Haitian-born guitarist whose function has embraced both classical and folk music, the last mentioned principally by means of the original music of his very own country. Casseus, delivered of the prominent family members in Port-au-Prince, was one of the primary guitarists for the isle to come …

Boukman Eksperyans announce their radicalism within their name, an allusion to Boukman the slave who initiated the island’s 1804 self-reliance uprising. Always conscious that independence and culture move together, this ten-member music group sing in the sporadically outlawed creole tongue and mix African spiritual motifs and road slang right into …

André Kostelanetz arranged classical items as easy hearing amounts, bringing the music to a wide, middle-brow viewers that wouldn’t as a rule have paid attention to the music. Along the way, he inadvertently created easy hearing music. Kostelanetz grasped the energy of radio and he modified his arrangements to match …

Lead Fugees rapper and sometime-guitarist Wyclef Jean was the 1st person in his group to go on a single profession, and he proved a lot more ambitious and eclectic by himself. Because the Fugees hung in limbo, Wyclef also became hip-hop’s unofficial multicultural conscience. A apparently omnipresent activist, he constructed …

An enigmatic guitarist and singer, Coupé Cloué acquired this nickname (translated as “kickout”) from his prowess over the soccer field. He’s well-known, or rather notorious, for his lyrics filled with sexual double-entendres, lengthy “raps” which range from risqué to intimate, and public satire. His “compas mamba” (peanut compas) appear very …

Manufacturer Kaytranada arrived through the early 2010s with ear-perking remixes and a range of noises that veered from J Dilla-inspired hip-hop beats to woozy home grooves. Blessed Louis Kevin Celestin in Haiti, the Montreal-raised musician, a voracious listener, got addicted to DJ’ing and creation during his early teenager years. In …