Emeline Michel “Rasin Kreyol”

Floods, hurricanes and political coups cannot silence the “Queen of Haitian Song.”  Listen, and you will hear hope for the world’s first black Republic in the voice of Emeline Michel. 

Michel lives in New York, but was born in Gonaives, Haiti, Where more than 1,500 people died because of flooding caused by the recent hurricane Jeanne.  She says her eighth album “Rasin Kreyol,” is her way to “be there” and show the side of the 200-year-old nation’s culture.

Citizen, Auburn, NY Oct. 7, 2004