Yeah I'm Haitian? U Ain't Know??? (Haiti Baby)
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Haitian Jack and Jimmy Henchmen Pacs friends turned eternal enemies
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Track Masters
Poke (Jean-Claude Olivier)
With over 130 Million records sold to date, Brooklyn New York natives, Jean Claude "Poke" Olivier from Crown Heights and Samuel “Tone†Barnes from Fort Green, make up the world renown, multi platinum music production team The Track Masters. The duo introduction is probably the most magical meeting ever in the "FairyTale" of urban pop music. The story goes that their respective friends submitted their instrumental tapes to a west coast base artist manager in search of tracks for his groups. The manager loved their work so much, that he instantly started calling them "My Track Masters." The rest as they say is history. Poke & Tone, unlike many of their contemporaries, have secured street credibility while capitalizing on the heavily commercial driven market. Their flavor and longevity lies in diversity for the duo, with production credits ranging from Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, R. Kelly, Total, Destiny's Child, Notorious B.I.G. Will Smith, Puff Daddy, New Edition, 98 Degrees, Big Daddy Cane, Jennifer Lopez, Blaque, Mary Mary, Mobb Deep, 50 Cent, Rihanna, Fat Joe, Big Pun, 3LW, Wu Tang Clan, Michael Jackson, DAngelo, Toni Braxton, Baby Face, Loon, A.Z.Martin, The Band, Usher, Mya, Tyrese, Slick Rick, Soul For Real, Anthony Brown, LL Cool J, Faith Evens, 2 Pac, Method Man, Nas, Chubb Rock, The Lox, Kool G Rap, Noreaga, Brandy, The Firm, Cypress Hill, Brian McKnight, Busta Rhymes and Lil Kim. From 1998 -2001 in addition to their music production careers for 20 Years, Poke & Tone have established themselves as music executives by starting their self-entitled record Label Track Masters Entertainment, distributed by Columbia / Sony Music Group, and running the Columbia / Sony Music Group Urban Department as Executive Vice Presidents Of Urban Music. So with their extensive diverse music production skills and experience in top executive positions, longevity is the set goal for Poke & Tone and their Track Masters brand.
Interesting thread, apart from a couple of the 'coon' posts....
thanks fam appreciate dat...
and this is same peps begging for a BLACK HISTORY BOARD and they quick to come up in here and start shit over NOTHING...
Haitian actress Claudine Oriol (center) in the midst of Haitian-Dutch MTV VJ Quddus and Haitian actors Jimmy Jean Louis and Jean Pierre Vertus
thanks fam appreciate dat...
and this is same peps begging for a BLACK HISTORY BOARD and they quick to come up in here and start shit over NOTHING...
Consider your audience bro., this is BGOL. A lot of dudes here don't even know Black people in American are from Africa... and you expect them to be proud of the SAME Africans who were taken to the DR and Haiti?
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Thats a great but sad point...the amount of info on this board about black history and the common ancestry we all share as black people irregardless of where we were born
Thats a great but sad point...the amount of info on this board about black history and the common ancestry we all share as black people irregardless of where we were born
TRUE..but thanks for your intelligent viewpoints fam
one of the greatest Haitian painters
Rose-Marie Desruisseau
Rose-Marie Desruisseau
Jamie "Marlo" Hector
Lumane Casimir
I found this online on why there are not more haitian models...
COMMENTS (especially for the BGOL photographers)
I've often stopped to wonder why model-search people don't make a quick run through Haiti.
Because the return is simply not there.
It's a combination of many things.
1. Too many short and average height people.
2. Too much roundness of the faces of those with a decent diet.
3. they don't exude an air of self confidence
4. the black mix....not from the tallest and best looking regions of africa....too many dahomean and congos....and not enough woloof...mandinke....and the likes.
5. the caucasian addition not from the tallest and best looking of europe.....France for crying out loud....then add the hairy, big nosed, bad skin arab....and you get the least attractive mixed group in the caribbean.
6. that caribbean diet.
For model quality blacks..I would head straight to Senegal and the Sahel region...all the way to Chad.
For the Hamitic or Mulatto look, I would head straight to Cape Verde and northeast africa.
If one has to stay in haiti.....I would look in the rice growing areas of latibonit..for that tall dark graceful thing with beautiful skin.
Understand what I am saying; there are many cute and attractive people in the country....but that natural model look/quality is simply not there.
COMMENTS (especially for the BGOL photographers)
I've often stopped to wonder why model-search people don't make a quick run through Haiti.
Because the return is simply not there.
It's a combination of many things.
1. Too many short and average height people.
2. Too much roundness of the faces of those with a decent diet.
3. they don't exude an air of self confidence
4. the black mix....not from the tallest and best looking regions of africa....too many dahomean and congos....and not enough woloof...mandinke....and the likes.
5. the caucasian addition not from the tallest and best looking of europe.....France for crying out loud....then add the hairy, big nosed, bad skin arab....and you get the least attractive mixed group in the caribbean.
6. that caribbean diet.
For model quality blacks..I would head straight to Senegal and the Sahel region...all the way to Chad.
For the Hamitic or Mulatto look, I would head straight to Cape Verde and northeast africa.
If one has to stay in haiti.....I would look in the rice growing areas of latibonit..for that tall dark graceful thing with beautiful skin.
Understand what I am saying; there are many cute and attractive people in the country....but that natural model look/quality is simply not there.
Haitian hurdler: Dudley Dorival
God damn you foreigners not everyone is from
Why the negativity? Every place got ghettos, even chicken shit white bread hawking berry ass white people
ELIZABETH GUÉRIN (RADIO PLANET KREYOL)
yves the tiger jabouin
Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, born 25 March 1762 in Jérémie, Saint-Domingue (today Haiti), died 6 February 1806 in Villers-Cotterêts, France. He is better known as Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, General of the French Revolution and the father of author Alexandre Dumas, père, and grandfather of author Alexandre Dumas, fils.[1][2] He was nicknamed the "Schwarze Teufel" ("Black Devil", "Diable Noir" in French) by the Austrians after his personal bravery prevented their retreat across the Adige on 19 January 1797.
Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, born 25 March 1762 in Jérémie, Saint-Domingue (today Haiti), died 6 February 1806 in Villers-Cotterêts, France. He is better known as Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, General of the French Revolution and the father of author Alexandre Dumas, père, and grandfather of author Alexandre Dumas, fils.[1][2] He was nicknamed the "Schwarze Teufel" ("Black Devil", "Diable Noir" in French) by the Austrians after his personal bravery prevented their retreat across the Adige on 19 January 1797.
i feel so cheated as a child about our history...i vow my kids will know
John James Audubon 1785-1851
The American Woodsman: Our Namesake and Inspiration
John James Audubon (1785-1851) was not the first person to attempt to paint and describe all the birds of America (Alexander Wilson has that distinction), but for half a century he was the young country’s dominant wildlife artist. His seminal Birds of America, a collection of 435 life-size prints, quickly eclipsed Wilson’s work and is still a standard against which 20th and 21st century bird artists, such as Roger Tory Peterson and David Sibley, are measured.
Although Audubon had no role in the organization that bears his name, there is a connection: George Bird Grinnell, one of the founders of the early Audubon Society in the late 1800s, was tutored by Lucy Audubon, John James’s widow. Knowing Audubon’s reputation, Grinnell chose his name as the inspiration for the organization’s earliest work to protect birds and their habitats. Today, the name Audubon remains synonymous with birds and bird conservation the world over.
Audubon was born in Saint Domingue (now Haiti), the illegitimate son of a French sea captain and plantation owner and his French mistress. Early on, he was raised by his stepmother, Mrs. Audubon, in Nantes, France, and took a lively interest in birds, nature, drawing, and music. In 1803, at the age of 18, he was sent to America, in part to escape conscription into the Emperor Napoleon’s army. He lived on the family-owned estate at Mill Grove, near Philadelphia, where he hunted, studied and drew birds, and met his wife, Lucy Bakewell. While there, he conducted the first known bird-banding experiment in North America, tying strings around the legs of Eastern Phoebes; he learned that the birds returned to the very same nesting sites each year.
Audubon spent more than a decade in business, eventually traveling down the Ohio River to western Kentucky – then the frontier – and setting up a dry-goods store in Henderson. He continued to draw birds as a hobby, amassing an impressive portfolio. While in Kentucky, Lucy gave birth to two sons, Victor Gifford and John Woodhouse, as well as a daughter who died in infancy. Audubon was quite successful in business for a while, but hard times hit, and in 1819 he was briefly jailed for bankruptcy.
With no other prospects, Audubon set off on his epic quest to depict America’s avifauna, with nothing but his gun, artist’s materials, and a young assistant. Floating down the Mississippi, he lived a rugged hand-to-mouth existence in the South while Lucy earned money as a tutor to wealthy plantation families. In 1826 he sailed with his partly finished collection to England. "The American Woodsman" was literally an overnight success. His life-size, highly dramatic bird portraits, along with his embellished descriptions of wilderness life, hit just the right note at the height of the Continent’s Romantic era. Audubon found a printer for the Birds of America, first in Edinburgh, then London, and later collaborated with the Scottish ornithologist William MacGillivray on the Ornithological Biographies – life histories of each of the species in the work.
The last print was issued in 1838, by which time Audubon had achieved fame and a modest degree of comfort, traveled this country several more times in search of birds, and settled in New York City. He made one more trip out West in 1843, the basis for his final work of mammals, the Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, which was largely completed by his sons and the text of which was written by his long-time friend, the Lutheran pastor John Bachman (whose daughters married Audubon’s sons). Audubon spent his last years in senility and died at age 65. He is buried in the Trinity Cemetery at 155th Street and Broadway in New York City.
Audubon’s story is one of triumph over adversity; his accomplishment is destined for the ages. He encapsulates the spirit of young America, when the wilderness was limitless and beguiling. He was a person of legendary strength and endurance as well as a keen observer of birds and nature. Like his peers, he was an avid hunter, and he also had a deep appreciation and concern for conservation; in his later writings he sounded the alarm about destruction of birds and habitats. It is fitting that today we carry his name and legacy into the future.
http://www.audubon.org/
Audubon's influence on ornithology and natural history was far reaching. Nearly all later ornithological works were inspired by his artistry and high standards. Charles Darwin quoted Audubon three times in On the Origin of Species and also in later works.[62] Despite some errors in field observations, Audubon's field notes comprised a significant contribution to the understanding of bird anatomy and behavior. Birds of America is still considered one of the greatest examples of book art. Among his accomplishments, Audubon discovered twenty-five new species and twelve new subspecies.[63]
Madonna's ex boyfriend, born in Brooklyn NY, his father, Gerard Basquiat, is from Haiti
When Jean-Michel Basquiat died in 1988 at the age of twenty-seven he had only been painting professionally for seven years, yet the body of work that he left behind was prodigious. In a tribute at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York (Sept 21-Nov 23, 1996) his work was described as “remarkable in its diversity of subject matter, materials and quality“:
His greatness lay in his ability to integrate African-American culture, the love of music, pop-culture, and the history of jazz into an extraordinary visual language. Basquiat truly raised his voice above the din of the hectic era that was the 1980s. His work exhibits a frenetic and driven need to express and define his role in the larger world, and within the urban multi-ethnic culture of New York
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Gabriel Casseus
Vanessa Williams
Gabriel Casseus
Didn't know that.
Josephine Premice
If your a fan of A Different World, you may remember the episode where while working for an art buyer, Whitley goes behind her bosses back and bids on an art piece. What you may not know is that the boss in the episode is played by Josephine Premice, who also guess stared on The Cosby Show and The Jeffersons.
Josephine’s career spans further than her featured roles on influential black shows as she is noted as one of the largest Calypso performers during the 40s and 50s, as well as a Broadway performer.
The Haitian born singer, actress, and dancer received a degree from Columbia University, but changed her plans to have a career in Anthropology to instead pursue her career in entertainment.
She performed in a Calypso musical Caribbean Carnival and performed in productions such as A Hand Is On The Gate and on Broadway in Jamaica, both of which lead to Tony Award nominations. In her performance in Jamaica, which also stared Lena Horne and one of my personal all time favorites Ossie Davis, her performance was quoted as being ”a razzle-dazzle lead performer who was hot flame to Horne’s cool fire”.
During one of Josephine’s performances of Jamaica, a friend of Lena Horne, Timothy Fales, the white son of a Wall Street Banker and descended of Mayflower settlers, fell for and married Josephine. The wedding was tabloid news with headlines such as”Negro Singer Married to Socialite Ship Exec“.
The couple moved to Rome for a 6 year hiatus before returning to the states where they lived in a large apartment on the Upper West Side of New York that they turned into a salon for entertainers and socialites. Despite living a posh life filled with dinner parties with Jackie Onassis and Harry Belafonte, Josephine’s time in Europe left her almost forgotten in the shadows of other stars at the time, like Diahann Carroll and her Jamaica co-star, Lena Horne.
It wasn’t until her daughter, socialite Susan Fales-Hill released her memoire, Always Wear Joy, that her Mother, the elegant but forgotten Broadway star that would primp just to go to the grocery store was honored.
In her book, Susan describes life growing up with “grand divas” and describes women like her Mother as empowering because “they had jewels, they had furs. They bought the things themselves. If a man did buy them for them, it was because the women were objects of total adulation.”
What’s most interesting to me about Josephine’s story is how although she was so glamorous, she was often yet rejected by casting agents for her dark skin and “unconventional looks”. I just started reading Always Wear Joy so I’ll be interested to read more on her struggles as a black entertainer.
There isn’t a lot of information available on Josephine, who passed away at 74 in 2001 online, so for more on Susan Fales-Hill, click here.
Also here is a clip from the A Different World episode I mentioned with Josephine.
Earle Hyman (Granddad on The Cosby Show) and Josephine Premice (Daughter Wrote for Cosby Show & A Different World) - Jet Magazine, May 3, 1956
Im at work so I cant post picks, but l wanna rep for my fam add the boxers:
Jean Pascal
Joachim Alcine
Andre Berto
Jean Pascal
Joachim Alcine
Andre Berto
