From the bars of the capital Port-au-Prince to Haiti’s most remote villages and its worldwide diaspora, people listen and ...

A month after igniting the crowd at Miami’s Compas Festival, Haitian konpa star Richard Cave and his band KAI delivered another electrifying performance on Friday, June 20, at “Sounds of Little Haiti.

Rodney Noel was promoting artists in the Haitian music scene back in the 1990s when he and his business partner realized something was missing in Miami’s cultural landscape. There were outdoor ...

Miami’s Haitian Compas Festival has endured it all through the years. It has bounced between venues, staved off competition, tried being a two-day event and has seen its celebrations dampen by rain ...

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 ...

Haitian kompa music pounded through speakers, the aroma of pâté chicken wafted through the air and dozens gathered Saturday in a sea of blue and red soccer jerseys during what the community hopes is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Their unapologetic hardcore sound was born in the 1980s, catering to the whiskey and rum drinking set, while gaining momentum in the nightclubs patronized by South Florida’s burgeoning Haitian music ...