Chances are that if you live in Miami-Dade County, you have at one time or another heard the swirling, merengue-tinged rhythms emanating from homes in Caribbean neighborhoods or rising from strip ...

MIAMI (WSVN) - Several local Haitian leaders were honored in downtown Miami at a special festival kick-off event. The Haitian Compas Festival on Thursday night celebrated 25 years with their Living ...

Au milieu des années 50, Haïti a vu naître l’un des rythmes les plus populaires des Antilles francophones : le compas, précurseur du zouk. Parmi ses dignes représentants, Tabou Combo, localisé à New ...

Thousands of Haitian and Caribbean music fans are expected for South Florida's annual Haitian Compas Festival. The French-Caribbean band Kassav will make a rare Florida appearance at the Saturday ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Both shows are part of the 19th Annual Compas Haitian Festival, taking place May ...

Since 1955, Haiti has offered the world a uniquely danceable and infectiously sexy music known as compas, konpa, and kompa. The Kreyol language has only been standardized in written form since 1979, ...

As much as Afro-Cuban rhythms are a part of Miami's musical heritage, so is Haitian Compas music. The genre is credited to 1950s saxophonist Nemours Jean-Baptiste, who incorporated brass into a wide ...

La version audio de cet article est générée par la synthèse vocale, une technologie basée sur l’intelligence artificielle. Le parc La Fontaine vibrera au rythme du compas samedi soir à Montréal, alors ...

Lauréat du prix RFI Découvertes 2006, Bélo donne son premier concert ce soir au Réservoir, à Paris. De retour d'une première prestation sur le sol américain et tranquillement installé dans sa chambre ...

Music producer Rodney Noel was on his way back from Haiti when he began musing about a sold-out dance party he promoted weeks earlier at a Hallandale Beach nightclub. Featuring two of the most popular ...