Marcelin, Adjamile

Adjamile Marcelin is the all female band, Siromiel’s percussionist. She started playing the percussion at an early age.  Adjamile drew up in a musical family. Her parents, Sanba Zao and Mireille Marcelin, are artists, musicians, painters, and dancers. With the family band, she has performed almost everywhere in Haiti and also in major cultural events elsewhere. […]

Joseph, Fredgy

Fredgy Joseph is the all female band, Siromiel’s second guitarist. She started playing the guitar at a very young, but she got into music professionally at the age of 19. Fredgy ventures into world music with a specific love for Compas, Reggae, and traditional Haitian music.

BOHIO MUSIC

Names given by the original inhabitants the Tainos who occupied the island, Ayiti means “mountainous land” in the language of the inhabitants of the island. Quisqueya, means “big land” to the natives of the islands surrounding Ayiti. Bohio means “rich in villages. “BOHIO MUSIC” (borrowed from) “Ayiti, Quisqueya ou Bohio” in honor of their beloved […]

Baylavwa

After his remarkable tribute to Cole Porter and the concerts and festivals with the group of singers formed for the occasion in 2007, Jean-Paul Elysée takes the game and decides to perpetuate the experience. This training, now run-in to the exercise, is called: “BAYLAVWA”. It remains to initiate a new project which the group will […]

Widmaier, Herby

Born in Port-au-Prince in 1933, the late Herbert Widmaier was a jazz icon in Haiti. Composer, sound engineer, filmmaker in his own time, radio man, and founder of Radio Métropole, he had innovated, if not revolutionized, this field in Haiti. With more than half a century dedicated exclusively to Haitian broadcasting, advertising, film and music, […]

Schütt, Cornelia (TiCorn)

TiCorn is an established performing artist of the Caribbean island Haiti. Her colorful career as professional singer / songwriter started 1978 with her first recording LP “Haiti”. Many music productions, concerts, live performances and music videos followed over the years. Besides interpreting traditional Haitian folk songs and her own ballads in Creole and English, she […]

Floristal, Louixene Romny (El Pozo)

Louixène Romny Floristal, better known by his stage name, El Pozo was born in the Chancerelles section of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. He is the second of seven children. Floristal started off playing the bass, switched to the drums, and took a shot at the keyboard until he finally settled with the guitar. Floristal got his stage […]