Port-au-Prince (EFE).- In nightclubs across Haiti’s capital, people continue to gather cautiously to dance konpa, a traditional Haitian music and dance style, defying widespread insecurity just days ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Compas, a beloved Haitian music and dance genre inspired by merengue and infused with percussion, made UNESCO’s cultural heritage list on Wednesday. The syncopated rhythm, ...

New York City will now celebrate Haitian Konpa Day every July 26, honoring Haiti’s iconic dance and music genre. New York City has designated July 26 as Haitian Konpa Day, an annual celebration ...

Legendary guitarist André “Dadou” Pasquet, who founded Haitian konpa band Magnum Band in Miami in the 1970s, is dead. He was 72. Miami Herald Archives He was a beacon of Haitian culture whose riveting ...

From Nemours Jean-Baptiste and Webert Sicot to T-Vice and Djakout Mizik, rivalries have shaped konpa music’s history and fueled its biggest moments. Djakout had just dropped its album with the smash ...

Women in konpa have gone from fandom to harmonizing in the background to commanding the stage over the past 70 years. Here are some female artists whose pioneering presence pushed the beloved genre ...

The first dish chef Jason Yamaguchi learned how to cook was chilaquiles. “Growing up in Orange County, I was around Latin culture my whole life,” Yamaguchi said. When his travels took him to to Peru, ...

Acclaimed Chef Jason Yamaguchi joins us to talk about the opening of his newest restaurant, Konpa Nikkei, in the heart of Corona del Mar. It’s one of the first restaurants in the region dedicated ...

Muzik’s Auto Care, 704 W. Erie Ave. in Lorain, has provided reliable automotive service to the local community for 83 years. The auto repair shop started in 1942, said John Muzik, the third-generation ...

This movie is the story of Fresh (Big Noyd), a street kid with connections inside the music industry. When his friend (G.O.D. III of Infamous Mobb) comes home from jail with musical aspirations ...