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Longing for Home
Emeline Michel (photo: Courtesy: Times Square) Email to friend
to listen to music clips from the "Queen of Haitian Song's" new album and get information on her upcoming performances.
Emeline Michel grew up in the Haitian countryside on the banks of a river. There was no electricity, but there were long afternoons with her father under the shady trees of home. She grew up singing, studied jazz in the U.S., moved to Paris, recorded in Montreal, but Emeline's music is the sound of longing for home.
Singing in "Kreyol," she celebrates the street life of the city and the sweetness of life in a remembered country. Two hundred years after gaining its independence, the shade trees are gone, and Haiti is a shattered nation. But Emeline Michel is not giving up on hope for Haiti.
