yeah, go right ahead and blind me with that smile http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXm_9E2Z05o&feature=related
This song is now played 8 times in a row with my thai girl and 5 of her girlfriends as they sit in the living room crying their hearts out to this ultra-romantic masterpiece ..... its 3:00 AM and the show might go on till dawn. The singer is the magnificent Jocelyn Beroard and the guitarist a genius who like Ritchie Valens, used to carry his guitar everywhere since the age of 5, even to the bathroom .. The music is not exactly haitian but Haiti's roots are deep, deep deep in there despite the band members being from Guadaloupe/Martinique. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1imu4-sHZE&feature=related
Pure haitian - artist is Michel Marthelly aka Sweet Micky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQe-8_oNpeA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XlDq7701s0&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OODDCWOkw3A&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB-s-jKj6vg&feature=related
Nemours is the granpappy of haitian music - there are only a few fellows interested in going that far back in history to collect his masterpieces - so Billy, Barack and Jonathan Demme, if you read this, please upload and drop a line in here. Thanks much.
Pure haitian - artist group .... Tabou Combo these guys carried the torch and took haitian music to the next level ........ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34it4DeYvaw&feature=related This next one was on the compilation (Konbit) by Jonathan Demme that arrived stateside in 1989 - instant hit, I got it in 1990. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBfEeFFrgsc&feature=related
More Jocelyn ..... magnifique http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59oQZrlfczU&feature=related simply stupendous .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJsBNzvY0GE&feature=related
Barack & Michelle, Billy & Hillary, Chelsea, George Bush and McCain dancing to haitian compas music - this stuff is the modern haitian compas style which I personally don't fancy at all, but I know that Barack digs it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJoX1kD5XEE&feature=related
This is the haitian guy who made the music for the inaugural balls etc. ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQMhzoYEoYs&NR=1
images of Haiti with sweet, lilting Compas music as the conduit .... Ayti cherie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_NYtPgf3UQ&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An8c7GE7TsA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtLDa3rW6iE&feature=related