I am quite fond of the singing of Louis Lahens and Gary French with any of Haiti's early compas bands, including one compas groups that brought the new sound to Martinique and Guadeloupe. In addition, that band also played boleros and other genres of Cuban music, showing how popular Cuban musical forms were throughout the Caribbean in the 1950s and 1960s. In addition, the band was always jazzy, partly due to excellent musicians like Felix Guignard. Hard not to get down to this gem.
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