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Yanick Etienne is no stranger to the music scene. The attractive vocalist started singing professionally since 1979. Her singing style combines jazz, soul and Caribbean flavors to make a completely unique sound: her own. Yanick was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and came to the U.S. with her family in 1970. Shes from a very artistic family. Two of her brothers are musicians and her younger sister is a dancer....

By Steve Desrosiers


After coming to some terms with the human scale of the current disaster in Haiti it dawned on me that most of our artistic treasures might be forever destroyed. The Centre D’Art, the murals of Bigaud in St. Trinite, the Presidential Palace itself (a gift from the US) and many other places. And what of the famous Hotel Oloffson? The place around which Graham Greene’s...

Marie Clotilde “Toto” Bissainthe (1934, Cap-Haïtien, Haiti - June 4, 1994, Haiti) was a Haïtian actress and singer known for her innovative blend of traditional Vodou and rural themes and music with contemporary lyricism and arrangements. Born in Cap-Haïtien in 1934, she left Haïti at an early age to pursue her studies abroad. Her career started in theatre with the company Griots, of which she was a founding...

It was in the 1980's, in a quiet section of Delmas 18 in Port-au-Prince Haiti, that 2 young talented adolescents were going to make history in the Haitian music industry. They were Garry Didier Perez and Jean Brutus Derissaint.

Every afternoon, the young Brutus would sit on his front porch and play the guitar, his favorite instrument. Garry Didier Perez, who at that time was sharing...

Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jude The Genius, better known to some as Papaloko, is an artist, whose work is born through trance, the act of falling into a deep meditative state and then being possessed by a spirit whose purpose is to paint strokes of life onto canvas. At about age six, Jude moved on to study sculpture and ceramics, in addition to his dimension interest, at the Art Institute of Saint Jean...