guitarist

Here is a picture of the musician Ralph Condé. He has a long history of playing music. This is a passion that Ralph Conde acquired since he was a child. Owning his first guitar at the age of 7, he started learning to play and dreamed to become a superstar. While growing up in Haiti, Ralph Condé was exposed to a variety of guitar players. However, he was mainly influenced by people like Jimmy Hendrix, Georges Benson,Lee Retenour,Steve Vai and some Kompa musicians from Haiti.

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Here is a picture of the legendary guitar player, Dadou Pasquet. He is the maestro of the Haitian group magnum band. A former musician of the group Tabou Combo, Dadou Pasquet started playing with Tropical band when he was only 13 years old. In the 1970's, he established himself as one of the greatest guitarists in Haitian music history.

He later decided to create Magnum Band with the slogan "La Seule Difference". Magnum has a unique sound which continues to be enjoyed by its audiences.

Magnum Band has represented Haiti in several parts of the world, including in the 1996 Olympic Games in Georgia.

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Manno Emmanuel Charlemagne, a Haitian activist-singer-songwriter-guitarist acoustic and ex-Mayor of Port-au-Prince, was born there in 1948. Charlemagne was raised in Carrefour, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, where dual musical influences shaped him as a musician, the peasant class introducing him to their roots music, and the Catholic school to choir hymns.

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