Where is kassav from

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Create Account. RSLPF warns crime scene tampering affect investigations. Cabot St Lucia boasts hiring over locals on project. Christopher Hunte wins legal victory as inciting march case thrown out. Kassav' Haitian and Antillean Creole for a local dish made from cassava is a Francophone zouk band which was formed in Eloi, Jean-Claude Naimro, Claude Vamur and Georges Decimus who left the band to create another band, Volte Face, before returning to Kassav' later along with several other, more minor members.

The total number of albums by the band and its members is approximately Together, the two of them decided to take carnival music and make it a more modern and polished style. It was the leading band to emerge from the formative years of Zouk. They gave the style a pan-Caribbean sound by taking elements from kompa, salsa, and calypso, and became world famous.

We all have the same goal. We are essentially Caribbean, and we want to represent the Caribbean with pride, to be the best Caribbean band in the world. That quest has carried Kassav to great heights. The great Miles Davis once said that Kassav would add something to the music of tomorrow.

The group put out an average of one album per year, while individual members were encouraged to compose their own music and bring out solo records. This allowed each strong personality in the group to go forward; it was also a response to the economic reality of the French Caribbean — in a small market, a hit tune tires easily. By this time, the full Kassav enterprise was ready to be launched; the group had grown, for new musicians joined up for each new album.

They went for two solo albums that did extremely well. This is what makes you move your waist. But as all the other instruments are rhythmic, you have to master the balance. Lozahic understood this. Now everybody wants to have the same sound as Kassav.

We are the target for imitations. George Debs made the deal of his life. He produced 12 albums in three years, all with the members of the same group and with no contract. They began to tour. After performing in front of 10, people in the Caribbean, they found them- selves in Africa before 50, delirious fans.

Why this great success in Africa, singing in a language no-one could understand? This is the opportunity of a compilation "Best of 20th Anniversary" and a concert at Paris Bercy with 32, spectators. Kassav concerts continues until early before taking a year off. The group is no longer quite the same, but in , Kassav is back with fourteenth album "K'Toz".

On May 16, the group invests the Stade de France in front of 65, people. Reserve your rental car in Martinique and find everywhere on the island, the Caribbean traditions that are largely responsible for Kassav. Previous page. Contact us. Customer service : 05 96 42 42 Our rental vehicles.