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

The New York City Council approved a resolution establishing July 26 as Haitian Konpa Day, recognizing the genre’s deep ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...