Haitian Heritage Month, Michaël Brun, Michaël Brun BAYO, BAYO Barclays Center, Haitian music, Haitian Konpa theGrio.com This Haitian Heritage Month, we’re highlighting Haitian Konpa with producer ...
Fridayy attends Island Records, Def Jam Recordings, Mercury Records and Republic Records celebration of the 2024 VMAs on September 11, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for ...
Turn on your favorite urban contemporary Miami radio station and you will hear a rotation of hip-hop, dancehall, reggaeton and Afrobeats, the fast-rising music set to percussive African beats with a ...
In the breezy heat of a Brooklyn summer night, DJ Michaël Brun leads a jubilant crowd of 8,000 chanting: “Bayo! Bayo!” Translated from Haitian Creole, “bayo” means “To give.” It's not only the name of ...
After celebrating its tenth anniversary last month with Tabou Combo, the long-standing konpa band known for bringing Haitian music to international audiences, organizers will feature singer Alan Cavé, ...
Early Monday morning brought snow to the area and by late morning a tropical breeze blew in from Haiti to the Clark State Performing Arts Center. It was where several kindergarten through third-grade ...
Miami partygoers are no strangers to Afro house. Local audiences have come to embrace the combination of the sounds of the African diaspora with homegrown house music. At least, that’s according to ...
Lakou Mizik’s first appearance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival sparked an album. The Haitian music collective had just released its debut, “Wa Di Yo,” in 2016 and stopped at the 2017 Jazz ...