So today is February 13, 2016…on this day 20 years ago, Columbia Records released The Score by The Fugees, featuring Lauren Hill, Pras and Wyclef Jean, heralding a tide of Haitian-American and Haitian pride. Came across this really interesting quote from Edwidge Danticat about Wyclef in an article archives. She told New York Times reporter Garry Pierre-Pierre the following: “Haitian identity will always be thought of as before and after Wyclef.”

This article was published in 1998, two years after The Score was released, and less than a year after Wyclef’s solo album The Carnival dropped.

So, while looking for some archival footage of him during those days, I came across this video of a performance in Haiti.

This video is so amazing to me. Check him out at the 0.32 mark.

And check out this video of Wyclef in an interview with Haitian media during a 1997 trip he and the other Fugees members took to Haiti. And look at Lauryn at the beginning of the video with her natural hair twists. To think that this was filmed in the 1990s. Natural hair pioneer.

Wyclef is such a trip.

And The Fugees went on an adventure it seems doing this music video for “Fugee La”. Check it out.

And a vintage cover of the group in Vibe magazine.

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Vintage Haitian music galore! Ostinato Records, an independent firm specializing in the packaging of world music has released Tanbou Toujou Lou (Them Drums Still Heavy), a 19-song collection of retro recordings recorded in Haiti.

Released in CD format, the record features more than two decades of music by Haitian artists and bands in jazz, meringue, konpa and roots genre.

Some of the groups listed are unknown to me. Actually, haven’t seen most of these bands’ names in print: Zotobre, Les Gypsies de Petionville, Les Loups Noirs, Tabou Combo (have heard of this group), Coupe Cloue et Trio Select.

It also features a song by Rodrigue Millien, who I previously wrote about in a past of edition of CHAPO BA (that you can read here).

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#Kreyolicious Books More than forty following her death, legendary Haitian author Marie Vieux Chauvet’s book La Danse du Volcan, originally published in the mid-1950s, will get an English translation from Archipelago, a nonprofit indie publishing press.

In 2010, the publisher Modern Library Classics had published a translation of the author’s 1967 novel entitled Amour, Colère, Folie entitled Love, Anger, Madness. Literary scribes Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokur were the translators for that edition.

In The Dance of the Volcano, Chauvet tells the story of two sisters (ahem, then known as Saint-Domingue), and their fate in color-divided, colonial Haiti.

The Dance of the Volcano‘s translator is none other than Kaiama L. Glover, an author who had experiences with translating another Haitian literary classic, Ready to Burst by Frank Etienne.

The kindle and paperback edition of The Dance of the Volcanowill be available in November.

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