She Got Soul: Nathalie "Talie" Cerin part 1

A couple of weeks ago, I got the privilege to send Nathalie "Talie Ayiti" Cerin some questions that she answered for me. I asked too many questions and she answered in great detail to all of them... So I've decided not to take anything away and just post our little chat in 2 parts. I'm posting the first part today to also say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Talie. She's an awesome artist and a great person. I'm a huge fan!This is the second installment of "She...

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Chocoune

The History of Choucoune Stolen LegacyI knew the song from Haiti but I never really thought about the history of Choucoune so I found this article very interesting. Check it out and comment to let me know how you feel about it. I'll share my thoughts later, I just wanted to post this while I remembered. http://defend.ht/history/articles/events/1374-the-ordeal-of-yellow-birdHere's Melanie JB Charles singing Choucoune. I love Melanie Charles so naturally I love her signing this songOh and I dedicate this song to Jen :)Here's a little bit of...

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Un-Haitian food and birthday pics

And so it was on Na's birthday that we decided to be un-Haitian and try some new food. I mean really as a "typical" Haitian you won't see me eat Sushi.... non merci. We, well at least people in my family turn up their noses at other people's food. That actually includes some other Haitian people's food but I digress... Clearly, you can see that Nacha and I have been Americanized hehe. We went to a new place that serves Thai/Japanese/Peruvian food....

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Cabbage

This picture makes me happy. These arecabbage rows at Kenscoff. For some reason I always wanted to go to Kenscoff... I like vegetables ...

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Remeniscing...

 It took a beat for us to remember and on cue we started blasting out all the lyrics to this old song. We never missed a word. While I drove with a big smile on my face, my speakers blaring, we remembered every word, every beat, every voice. We laughed at the end about how crazy it is that we remembered everything. Even English words that we did not know the meaning of ages ago back in Haiti when we learned those songs. Now we giggle and scoff " but what are they saying? that is not even a real English word" lol. The lyrics were to some old...

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