EMELINE MICHEL .-. BANDA .-. New Album

Added: May 17, 2008

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On sale at KOFI LOUNGE. - . www.kofistore.com 1 Gade Papi 2 Mwen Pa Ka Lage'w 3 Jodiya 4 Awa 5 Fe Van Pou Mwen 6 Histoire d'Eau 7 Banda 8 Yon Ti Mo 9 Chans 10 Maricela 11 Twa Fey 12 Sam Pa We Yo 13 In Cha Allah 14 Jounin She is the reigning Queen of Haitian Song: a captivating performer, versatile vocalist and one of the premier Haitian songwriters of her generation. She has recorded and appeared on concert stages throughout the Caribbean, Europe, and North & South America for over 20 years. Singing both in French and Haitian Creole, her nine albums, Douvanjou ka leve (May the Sun Rise), Pa gen manti nan sa (There's No Doubt), Rhum & Flamme (Rum & Flame), Tout Mon Temps (All My Time), The Very Best, Ban'm pase (Let Me Pass), Cordes et Ame (Strings and Soul), Rasin Kreyol (Creole Roots), and Reine de Cour (Queen of Hearts) have catapulted her to international acclaim. This album opened multiple doors on the international scene and Emeline had the opportunity to showcase her talents and the musc of Haiti on National Public Radio, CBC Radio, Canadian television, and top venues and festivals such as Reggae on the River, Mountain Stage, the Getty Center, Stern Grove, Montréal Jazz Festival, Philadelphia's Kimmel Center and a three‐day series at Carnegie Hall. Jon Pareles, principal popular music critic for The New York Times, reviewing a Joe's Pub performance described her as "the dancing ambassador with a voice serene and warm like a breeze". The Times also printed a major artistic profile of Emeline on November 19, 2004 entitled "A Diplomat of Music, Longing for Her Homeland". La Presse de Montréal, the leading newspaper in Québec described the music on Rasin Kreyol as "concentrated with sun, tears, sand, and mud on the musical genres of Kompa, Rara, and sacred and profound rhythms, these ' kreyol roots' [Rasyn Creoles] find again a way to nourish themselves from the deserted soil of the magic land [Haiti]", and cited Rasin Kreyol as the Best World Music Album of 2004. In 2006, Emeline was chosen from among the multitude of talented New York‐based performers to deliver the headline performance for the 2006 Clinton Global Initiative, a conclave of over 2000 world dignitaries, thinkers, presidents and world leaders brought together by former President Bill Clinton. On December 2007 Emeline was invited as the guest of honor at Music en Folie, an annual national music fair in Port‐au‐Prince, Haiti. The occasion was a pre‐release of her 2008 CD (and 9th album), Reine de Coeur, a jewel of 14 songs. Rustic and rhythmic, profound and personal, Reine de Coeur reaches you to the core. Conceptualized and written between Africa and Haiti, and recorded in Haiti, New York, Montreal and Burkina Faso (French West Africa) with a team of 35 musicians, this is Emeline's third consecutive turn in the producers chair in addition to her roles as vocalist and songwriter. Spicy, crunchy, sweet, Reine de Coeur is loaded with delectable music morsels and autobiographic stories such as Gade Papi (Look Papa) which reminds us to dream our dreams, Maricela and Banda. Haiti's leading daily paper Le Nouvelliste observed, "Emeline [Reine de Coeur] is selling like hot cakes .... Just as every citizen has a national identity card, every Haitian should have one Emeline CD at their home". Reine de Coeur has been universally acclaimed and once again the "Horse of Fire" (Emeline's production company Production Cheval de Feu) has left its mark with rich and beautiful album that sets a new standard for Haitian music.

Channel: Music

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