Manigat, Eval

“Born in Plaisance, Haiti (1939), Manigat went to Canada in 1974, after having worked in Martinique and St. Martin, where he became more and more impressed with the versatility of Caribbean-African musical culture and the new forms that emerge when it is fused with European classical and folk traditions. In Quebec, Manigat experimented with fusions […]

Peters, Joseph Hans

Born in Port-au-Prince on March 18, 1960, Hans Peters became at the age of 6 a soloist in the choir of Saint-Louis de Gonzague, where he developed his first contacts with music. At 15, he learned the guitar with his teachers and mentors, Amos COULANGES and Clifford Pigniat. Over time, he will become a career […]

Lamarre, Marc

Having entered Port-au-Prince, Marc Lamarre studied in several local higher education establishments, before going to Paris to train in electricity. There, he did not let go of the music, especially next to his partner, Raoul Guillaume. At the age of 20, Maestro Lamarre founded the group “Jazz Sénat” with his brother, also a trumpeter, Marcel Fleury, […]

Millien, Léon

Procreated through the musical trends that prevailed in the first half of the 1960s, Léon Millien took off in the euphoria of the yé-yé wave; with corollaries rock, twist, boogaloo among others. Between the wanderings of jazz and bossa-nova; while the konpa from Nemours, the kadans ranpa from Sicot and the modern meringue from Raoul Guillaume led the […]

Suffren, Tamara

Tamara Suffren has been singing since the age of 5. Raised on jazz, French chanson but mostly Gospel, she released a first album in 2013, “Lespwa” (“hope” in Creole) that combines jazz, Creole, chanson and blues.

Laveaux, Mélissa

Mélissa Laveaux (born Mélissa Michelle Marjolec Laveaux on 9 January 1985) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist of Haitian descent signed to No Format!. Her music has been described as a mix of roots, folk, and blues using her signature percussive finger-style guitar stylings and soulful vocals. In 2006, Laveaux released the first full-length album […]