Fans of Haitian music look forward every year to celebrating their culture during Haitian Compas Festival, which again this year will take place at Mana Wynwood in Miami on May 18. The event is the ...

Rodney Noel was promoting artists in the Haitian music scene back in the 1990s when he and his business partner realized something was missing in Miami’s cultural landscape. There were outdoor ...

Le chanteur haïtien Dadou Pasquet est décédé dans la matinée du dimanche 23 novembre 2025, ont confirmé ses proches dans un message adressé à ses fans. Ils ont indiqué qu’il s’est éteint paisiblement, ...

Samedi 22 novembre 2025, André Pasquet alias « Dadou », guitariste d’exception, auteur, compositeur et interprète, de ...

May marks the start of Haitian Heritage Cultural month, where the community in South Florida and beyond celebrates the culture of Haiti and the founding of its flag on May 18, 1803. Today Arcahaie, ...

This Friday, Big Night in Little Haiti will turn the entire hood into a massive dance floor. Shleu Shleu, compas music’s living legends who have wowed crowds around the world since 1965, will play the ...

Music producer Rodney Noel was on his way back from Haiti when he began musing about a sold-out dance party he promoted weeks earlier at a Hallandale Beach nightclub. Featuring two of the most popular ...

Since 1955, Haiti has offered the world a uniquely danceable and infectiously sexy music known as compas, konpa, and kompa. The Kreyol language has only been standardized in written form since 1979, ...

SAINT-MICHEL de L’ATTALAYE, Haiti – A compas band, playing the hypnotic, sultry rhythms of Haiti’s national dance music, greeted us at Port-au-Prince International Airport. Unlike many other styles of ...

MICHEL MARTELLY, Haiti’s president, had planned to mark the end of his term in office by going back to his old job as a popular singer of compas, a Haitian form of merengue. The idea was to perform ...

« Ce concert à l’Accor Arena de Paris se présentait comme le grand sommet de l’année et même comme un sommet dans l’histoire de la musique haïtienne. Avec le décès sur scène de Mikaben, c’est Michael ...