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, ...

Record producer and DJ Michael Brun is known for electrifying dance crowds with his blend of percussion-heavy Haitian rhythms and club music with his popular “BAYO” block parties. But the Haiti-born ...

A month after igniting the crowd at Miami’s Compas Festival, Haitian konpa star Richard Cave extends his microphone to a fan as he performs with his band KAI and delivers another electrifying ...

If mainstream music is the hard reality, underground is the esoteric pipe dream. What the underground scene may lack in popular commercial success, it makes up for in avant-garde, anti-establishment, ...

FILE - Andre "Dadou" Pasquet, left, sings and plays guitar with the Magnum compas band during a practice session in North Miami, Fla. Thursday, May 8, 2008. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Compas, a beloved ...