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French neo-soul chanteuse Perle Lama embraced the customs of American R&B and Caribbean zouk to get critical and industrial success. Created January 20, 1984, in Fort-de-France, Martinique, Lama was simply 14 years of age when she stated best honors in the JM Tranquility Contest. The reward, a recording agreement, yielded …

A hands drummer, bamboo flutist, and songwriter, St. Prix is among the rootsmen of Martinique. After stints as percussionist in lots of local rings (including E+, Malavoi, and Pakatak), he shaped his own music group, Avan Vehicle, in the first 80s and hasn’t looked back again. His pioneer attempts had …

An American author of contemporary music-theater pieces in the 1930s and ’40s.

Kali began his professional music profession in what many consider to have already been Martinique’s finest reggae music group, Sixième personally Continent, which strike big using a 12-inches solo called “Reggae Dom-Tom.” In the past due ’80s Kali found a century-old family members heirloom, a banjo, and started exploring root …