Compas, a beloved Haitian music and dance genre inspired by merengue and infused with percussion, made UNESCO’s ...

UNESCO is set to add Haiti’s Compas music and dance to its Cultural Heritage List, recognising a style born in the 1950s that ...

Compas, Haiti's vibrant music genre, has been added to UNESCO's cultural heritage list. This honor highlights the genre's ...

Rodney Noel was promoting artists in the Haitian music scene back in the 1990s when he and his business partner realized something was missing in Miami’s cultural landscape. There were outdoor ...

This Friday, Big Night in Little Haiti will turn the entire hood into a massive dance floor. Shleu Shleu, compas music’s living legends who have wowed crowds around the world since 1965, will play the ...

Haitian Compas Festival is one of the highlights of Haitian Heritage Month. Bryan Cereijo Bryan Cereijo May is Haitian Heritage Month. In South Florida that means the return of non-stop konpa music, ...

This musical source of pride among Haitians -- known as konpa or kompa in Creole -- is expected to be added by UNESCO to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list on Wednesday. "Today, compas is the main ...

Turn on your favorite urban contemporary Miami radio station and you will hear a rotation of hip-hop, dancehall, reggaeton and Afrobeats, the fast-rising music set to percussive African beats with a ...