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He was a unique talent spotter who discovered and hired a large number of the great Haitian painters: Jacques Enguerrand Gourgue, André Pierre, André Normil.
Finding Haiti on Vinyl
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In Jacmel, a sleepy beach town on Haiti’s southern coast, I hit pay dirt: In the archives of a local radio station, stuffed inside a gray metal locker, were hundreds of rare vinyl records, relics of a golden age of Haitian music.
I sorted and sifted for hours, previewed each record on my portable turntable, and then entered into lengthy and sometimes frustrating negotiations over cost. Among the stacks was a holy grail of Haitian music: the debut LP of les Loups Noirs—the Black Wolves—titled Jouent Pour Vous, recorded in 1970 when the group members were still in their early 20s.
Les Loups Noirs became a key part of a rich musical tradition that few people off the island or outside the Haitian diaspora know