les gypsies

Tico Pasket was born in Haitian family of music. Drum makes him happy.

In 1969 Claude "Tico" Pasquet joined the group Babby Jazz and later Les Difficiles de New York. He was a skilled drummer whom everyone admired.

Later, in 1972 he played with Robert Martino in Les Gypsies.

In 1975, with his brother Dadou Pasquet, they founded Magnum Band which still exists up to date.

Magnum Band sometimes includes such musicians like Laurent Ciceron on bass, Lucien Benjamin on the rhythm guitar, Camille Armand on tambour, David Lacombe on keyboard, Andre Dejean on trumpet

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Here is a picture of the Haitian drummer and percussionist in Konpa music. This is one of the music albums made with Les Gypsies de Petion-Ville.

Tico had become such a great drummer, thanks to the skills given to him by his uncle Alexandre and Richard.

Tico Pasket is known in the Haitian music industry as one of the top in the business. Hestarted his musical career in a group by the name of La Belle Etoile where he spent only two years. He moved with his family to New York in 1967

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This is the popular Haitian singer Max Badette. This interview avec Max Badette took place in martinique a l atrium filmé par eric exilie.

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After Robert Martino left Les Dificile De Petion, he was followed by other members of les difficiles de petion thereby adding a lot of injuries to the band. They went to form another band called the Les Gypsies.

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