Previous bands: Skah Shah, Les Shleu Shleu, Bazouka,

Previous bands: Corvington, Les Gypsies de Queens, Tabou Combo, Ibo Combo, Djet-X

County Government Administrator, Educator, TV and Radio producer/host, writer. Previous bands: Laklas, Creación Criolla, Les Shleu Shleu, and Muzik.

In the spring of 2004, a group of friends accidentally started to meet every Friday simply to “hangout”, with no specific purpose. At times, they would watch music videos, sports, or discuss various topics ranging from family issues, acculturation, the US economy and its occurrences, to, inevitably, Haiti. The discussions about Haiti were positive in […]

During the 1990s, band members of the original band, Skah Shah #1 founded a band called “Bazouka” with lead vocalist, Jean Michel Saint Victor ‘Zouzoule’. “Bazouka” released an album during the mid-nineties with a hit songs called ‘Kann Kale’ sung by Zouzoule, however, the band soon disbanded.

Emerante Morse was born Emerante de Pradines in Haiti in 1918. The daughter of the legendary Haitian entertainer Auguste de Pradines (better known as Ti Candio),  de Pradines is a pioneering singer, dancer and folklorist. De Pradines sang Vodou songs in Creole on the radio when it was dangerous to do so, and was the […]

Marie Clotilde “Toto” Bissainthe (1934, Cap-Haïtien, Haiti – June 4, 1994, Haiti) was a Haïtian actress and singer known for her innovative blend of traditional Vodou and rural themes and music with contemporary lyricism and arrangements. Born in Cap-Haïtien in 1934, she left Haïti at an early age to pursue her studies abroad. Her career […]

Nathalie Cerin has been singing all her life, but it wasn’t until 2009 that the singer-songwriter-performer decided to seriously pursue a career in singing. Talie, as she calls herself on stage, is Haiti-born and raised, but is pretty much a Philadelphian. Her creativity goes beyond songwriting; one of the fiction pieces she wrotewas recently anthologized […]

Jho Archer Born: 1943, Haiti Died: June 4th, 2005, Paris, France