Compas, a beloved Haitian music and dance genre inspired by merengue and infused with percussion, has made UNESCO’s cultural ...

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 konpa star Richard Cave performs with his band KAI on Friday, June 20, 2025, at “Sounds of Little Haiti” in Miami, Florida. Carl Juste [email protected] A month after igniting the crowd ...

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

UNESCO is set to add Haiti’s Compas music and dance to its Cultural Heritage List, recognising a style born in the 1950s that blends African and Caribbean influences and remains central to Haitian ...

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 ...

Haitian Compas Festival is one of the highlights of Haitian Heritage Month. Bryan Cereijo Bryan Cereijo May is Haitian Heritage Month. In South Florida that means the return of non-stop konpa music, ...

On Bob Marley’s heavy track “Them Belly Full (But We Hungry),” the reggae legend implored listeners to “forget your troubles and dance.” It often isn’t that easy, when the ends seem impossible to make ...

Haiti’s signature music and dance genre — to its Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list during its Dec. 10 session in ...

This Friday, Big Night in Little Haiti will turn the entire hood into a massive dance floor. Shleu Shleu, compas music’s living legends who have wowed crowds around the world since 1965, will play the ...

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.