Theodore Beaubrun Jr., also known as “Lolo” is the co founder along with his wife Manze of the Haitian rasin (roots music) band, Boukman Eksperyans.  Beaubrun was born on 20 September 1956 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in the neighborhood of Bas-Peu-de-Choses. Lòlò Beaubrun was the son of a popular comedic actor in Haiti, Theodore Beaubrun Sr., and Luce Americe Beaubrun, a folk dancer and actress, formerly with La Troupe Folklorique Nationale d’Haïti. Lòlò acted in the cast of his father’s television program Aventures de Languichatte, in which his father played the madcap character Languichatte Débordus.

Lòlò Beaubrun went to Petit Séminaire Collège Saint Martial for his primary schooling, later attending high school first at the Collège Canado-Haïtien and then at the Union School, an American school in Haiti, graduating in June 1975. In September 1975 he traveled to New York to join his mother, who had relocated to the United States in 1970 In New York City Lòlò took classes in.