#Racine mapou azor professional#

Johnson, Director of Touring Artists for New York’s Center for Traditional Music and Dance. “ A giant in Haiti, Azor was a master percussionist and a tireless ambassador of Haiti’s rich music and cultural traditions,” said Kaisha S. Azor later formed the influential band Racine Mapou de Azor, which legitimized Vodu music as an integral part of Haitian culture. This band was one of the first to play Vodu music concerts. In addition, Azor’s music videos introduced Haitian music to wider audiences.Īzor played in several konpa bands ( SS One and Scorpio) and folk group Bakoulou. He became one of the most popular musicians in Haiti and toured the world showcasing the traditional rasin (also known as racine) music and dances of Haiti. Thanks to him this music, entered in a long enclave, shows and is appreciated by millions in both Haitian and foreign music lovers.” “ With Vodou music as a backdrop, the group that he led and which bears his name, Racine Mapou of Azor, traveled around the world and enabled all to discover the value of the music lakous (yard music) and the Haitian identity. “ Haiti has lost one of the most popular virtuosos of music of the past 50 years and a tireless Ambassador of Haitian culture,” said President Michel Martelly. Azor was given a state funeral and he was posthumously decorated by Haiti’s president Michel Martelly. Lénord Fortuné - AzorHaitian master drummer and singer Lénord Fortuné, also known as Azor, died July 16.

#Racine mapou azor professional#

Marked by the tireless beat of the drums of petro inspiration, hardly supported by the drum machine, the powerful voice of Azor, with the characteristic tone of the voodoo priest, assister by a women chorus, celebrates the voodoo loas, sings the attachment to the roots and comments on the episodes of the political life and others artistic quarrels.Īfter several tours outside of the country (between them nine trips to Japan) and a documentary (Haïti, cœur battant de Carl Lafontant), the band 'Racine Mapou de Azor' succeeded in keeping the genuine traditional music of their country, while they use the modern ways of broadcasting, which allows their musical productions to be part of the professional musical scene in Haiti, and to compete with usual meanstream music.Your Connection to traditional and contemporary World Music, including folk, roots, global music, ethno and crosscultural fusions

without modern arrangements or electric instruments. Musically, with songs and percussions, bas drums and congas, the band 'Racine Mapou de Azor' plays traditional music or pure rasin, i.e. They aspire to maintain the contact with the roots of their traditions and the sacred, like the mapou, voodoo sacred tree with imposing roots, renowned for accomodating the spirits. The success of the band 'Racine Mapou de Azor' partly means the normalization of voodoo, through music, its recognition as a culture, and the acceptation of the African and rural part of Haitian identity.įrom this perspective, the members of the band, who admit to be voodoo practitioners, explicitly join tradition and the symbolical universe of voodoo, to which the name of the band refers. During th 90's, with the rasin movment, this band, directed by Jacques Maurice Fortéré 'Wawa', started to play voodoo music in concert: with them, voodoo music shifted directly from the hounfort voodoo temples to live stage. The band 'Racine Mapou de Azor' was lead by Lénord Fortuné 'Azor', singer and drumer who used to belong to several bands, of konpa (SS One and Scorpio) and folklore (Bakoulou group), before becoming part of the band 'Racine Kanga de Wawa'. 'I have the drum in the soul and the music in the bowels' dixit Azor. Yesterday evening Lenord Fortune 'Azor', singer and drumer of the band Racine Mapou de Azor passed away, at the age of 46 years (JJuly 16, 2011), to the hospital Bernard Mevs (due to renal failure according to some sources) after going to Saut d'Eau to give a spectacle as part of the celebrations of the Feast of Mont Carmel. Haiti - DR : All gas stations in Dajabón under military control Haiti - Economy : The textile sector could lose nearly 40% of its jobs Haiti - Economy : The Investment Facilitation Center is getting stronger Haiti - Diaspora Covid-19 : Daily Bulletin #895

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