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 ...
The year was 1983, and Jacob Desvarieux was on tour with his French-Caribbean party band in Haiti when inspiration hit. Sitting inside a Port-au-Prince hotel, the singer-guitarist took pen to paper ...
Zouk music began in the West Indies in the early 1980s. The band Kassav is widely credited with creating the first popular zouk songs. The group was formed in Paris and combined traditional Caribbean ...