Yeah I'm Haitian? U Ain't Know??? (Haiti Baby)
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Pastor Troy - Vica Versa
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.
you dig deep.did not about her
David Jude Jolicoeur, rapper from De La Soul
Trugoy and more recently Dave
Trugoy and more recently Dave
DAHITMAN
Rising Star
Meta Golding
American Idol star Joanne Borgella
How can one decide to marry just one beautiful black women, there is too many to choose from.
Josephine Premice
you dig deep.did not about her
Meta Golding
first pic look lil like older version of aaliyah side view pic
OK This from MTV so....
50 Cent - Born Curtis James Jackson III in South Jamaica, Queens, New York, 50 Cent has not widely mentioned a Haitian connection but his mother, Sabrina Jackson, who died when he was 12, was reportedly half Haitian.
DMX Get Shot Down (feat. 50 Cent)
50 Cent
Over and over, i done told ya boy
im a G-Unit motherfuckin soldier boy
now when u gon get it in yo brain
the gates wide open and the dogs off the chain
I be that young'n with the gun thats tellin ya stop frontin
I be that young'n on the run, after i pop sumthin
In the Bible i read, death is undetermined,
If u talk about death, then death is oncoming,
jay taught me how to flow, shot Em in the head,
randy's ass was there, now he runnin scared,
sum say im gangsta, some say im crazy,
if u ask me, i say im wut the hood made me,
now i could stunt til my ass dead broke like JD,
or put a hundred-grand on any nigga's head that play me,
see im cool with the haitian mob niggas,
then say "saapa sei my boolay", and rob niggas,
to me, u be try to make the nigga look bad, wutsup wit that
see my flick, next to preme, papi and cat
and montana, i kill em with the gramma'
i enhanced in the slamma after bangin them hammas, X wut up
DAHITMAN
Rising Star
OK This from MTV so....
50 Cent - Born Curtis James Jackson III in South Jamaica, Queens, New York, 50 Cent has not widely mentioned a Haitian connection but his mother, Sabrina Jackson, who died when he was 12, was reportedly half Haitian.
DMX Get Shot Down (feat. 50 Cent)
50 Cent
Over and over, i done told ya boy
im a G-Unit motherfuckin soldier boy
now when u gon get it in yo brain
the gates wide open and the dogs off the chain
I be that young'n with the gun thats tellin ya stop frontin
I be that young'n on the run, after i pop sumthin
In the Bible i read, death is undetermined,
If u talk about death, then death is oncoming,
jay taught me how to flow, shot Em in the head,
randy's ass was there, now he runnin scared,
sum say im gangsta, some say im crazy,
if u ask me, i say im wut the hood made me,
now i could stunt til my ass dead broke like JD,
or put a hundred-grand on any nigga's head that play me,
see im cool with the haitian mob niggas,
then say "saapa sei my boolay", and rob niggas,
to me, u be try to make the nigga look bad, wutsup wit that
see my flick, next to preme, papi and cat
and montana, i kill em with the gramma'
i enhanced in the slamma after bangin them hammas, X wut up
Fuck the haters on BGOL I like 50 Cent.
Jason Derulo - born in Miami, he went platinum with the hit song "Whatcha Say", his parents are from Haiti.
Regine Chassagne (Arcade Fire) - born in Canada, her family having emigrated from Haiti during the Duvalier dictatorship
DAHITMAN
Rising Star
Regine Chassagne (Arcade Fire) - born in Canada, her family having emigrated from Haiti during the Duvalier dictatorship
Kangol Kid – American rapper
Regine Chassagne (Arcade Fire) - born in Canada, her family having emigrated from Haiti during the Duvalier dictatorship
they had a song haiti not sure from their first albun but glad they won albun of the year.
Sha Money XL
Jessica Lucas
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Trina McGee-Davis (born September 6, 1969) is an American actress best known for playing Angela Moore on Boy Meets World.
Daphnee Duplaix Samuel
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Josmer Altidore
yvenson bernard
Bernard ended up becoming an undrafted free agent after college and was signed a few weeks later by the St. Louis Rams. The Rams later released him before seasons end. He was then signed by the Seattle Seahawks, who also cut him, leading him to sign with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He was released on July 16, 2009 but re-signed the next day to the practice roster. On February 17, 2011 he signed a two year deal with the Montreal Alouettes.
Bernard ended up becoming an undrafted free agent after college and was signed a few weeks later by the St. Louis Rams. The Rams later released him before seasons end. He was then signed by the Seattle Seahawks, who also cut him, leading him to sign with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He was released on July 16, 2009 but re-signed the next day to the practice roster. On February 17, 2011 he signed a two year deal with the Montreal Alouettes.
DAHITMAN
Rising Star
Ralph Gilles – American automobile designer
Ralph V. Gilles, born on January 14, 1970 in New York, NY, is a Haitian automobile designer.
Currently the President and CEO of the Dodge Car Brand and Senior Vice President of Design at Chrysler Group LLC[1], Gilles styled the 2005 Chrysler 300 — after joining Chrysler in 1992.
Ralph V. Gilles, born on January 14, 1970 in New York, NY, is a Haitian automobile designer.
Currently the President and CEO of the Dodge Car Brand and Senior Vice President of Design at Chrysler Group LLC[1], Gilles styled the 2005 Chrysler 300 — after joining Chrysler in 1992.
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DaimlerChrysler's Ralph Gilles Drives the Fast Track
By Roger Witherspoon
Ralph Gilles There comes a point in the creation of a car where the designers and engineers have to bite the bullet, hold their collective breath, and hope the test car rolling out of production meets their expectations.
For Ralph Gilles, head of DaimlerChrysler Corporation's creative Studio 3, that moment arrived as he opened the door of the prototype Chrysler, a car he and his staff hoped would help rejuvenate the company and boost its effort to differentiate its brands."Dodge and Chrysler are separating themselves into different types of vehicles, with different customers in mind," says the 34-year-old Gilles, winner of this year's Black Engineer of the Year President's Award.
"Dodge is a mainstream brand with an attitude, but Chrysler is more aspirational, more graceful with more high-end products. We're going to a premium market where the main competitors will be Volvos, Audis, and other imports."
Gilles' studio had scored one hit already with its Dodge Magnum, a hot rod with a 340-horsepower Hemi engine masquerading as a family station wagon. They led the track with the 200-mile-an-hour, 500-horsepower Dodge Viper. And his Jeep Liberty had proved to be a successful link between Jeep's comfortable Grand Cherokee SUV and its road warrior Wrangler.
But it was the Chrysler division where they needed to shine. They needed a high-end sedan with a classical look reminiscent of a Bentley; a rear-wheel-drive like the best from Chrysler's heyday; a head-turner engineered soundly enough to be parked next to a Jaguar, Mercedes, or Volvo without embarrassment.
The car, says Gilles, "would redefine us as a car company, and it would be the kind of car the valets would park out front."
What they came up with was the Chrysler 300. "That car was a perfect storm of all our ideas," says Gilles. "That car really resonates."
Car of the Year
And when he sat in the drivers' seat and stepped on the gas "I was almost in tears driving the car. It felt so right. It's one thing to make it look good, but the engineers brought it home."
Critics thought so, too, and Motor Trend Magazine named the Chrysler 300 its Car of the Year for 2005, ahead of 24 competitors including the Porsche 911, Lotus Elise, and BMW 6. Together, Gilles' cars led the way in an amazing turnaround for DaimlerChrysler, whose bottom line went from an $806-million loss in 2003 to a $1.3-billion profit in the first nine months of 2004. In all, 2004 was a banner year for the young artist from Montreal, Canada.
For Ralph Gilles, whose parents emigrated to Canada from Haiti, the creative spark appeared early. He was five years old, visiting his Aunt Gisele on Long Island, N.Y., and, like a lot of kids, drawing what he saw. What differentiated Gilles from the pack at that early age was the fact that his drawings were clear and made sense.
"My aunt saw my sketches," Gilles recalls, "and she turned to her husband and said 'Hey Mike! My Nephew can draw! Give him some paper to draw on."
A Letter to Iacocca
So he began sketching wherever he went, passing dull moments in school with fanciful drawings of cars and other modes of transport. At 15, Gilles wrote a letter to Chrysler head Lee Iacocca, asking what it would take to become a design artist for the giant car company.
"And wow, they wrote me back," he said. "I was so impressed. They wrote giving the different names of colleges they hire from, and that was all I needed."
He was a bit disappointed that the letter came from Neal Walling, then vice president of design, instead of the legendary Iacocca himself. "But I felt a certain loyalty to Chrysler because they wrote me, and it changed my life."
He spent a semester in engineering school in Canada, but decided he'd rather draw.
"Design is creative," Gilles said. "Engineering is like art work, but they're not the same. As designers, we are in charge of the way a car looks and the emotions you get when you look at it. It's different from the calculus and the engineering. It is a different discipline."
So he followed Walling's advice, attending the College of Art and Design in Detroit, which provides about 40 percent of the company's designers, and went to work for Walling after graduating in 1992. It did not take him long to work his way up the ranks, and in 2001 he took over Studio 3, in Auburn Hills, Mich., one of seven Chrysler design studios.
'Living Out Your Dream'
There, they work in tandem with the engineers to create a package.
"We start sketching," Gilles says. "and the engineers come up with how it works, where the wheels are at, where the engine is, and how it fits together. The image is ours.
"You can have the best sketch in the world, but if the package isn't right, it won't drive right."
Gilles equates the design studio with a movie lot. "I direct a studio to draw," he said. "We get together with the other team members and exchange ideas. It's like when you make a movie, and you talk about the scenes in the movie before you film the thing.
"It's like that with cars. No one person designs a car."
With Gilles at the helm, the synergy between the engineers and artists obviously works. But he can't design cars all the time. To escape, he gets away from the office and onto a track to race his red Viper.
Gilles rhapsodizes about the powerful sports car.
"The Viper is low-slung and sensuous with all that engine all over there," he says. "As a young man, it appeals to you. It's like living out your dream."
SORRY
By Roger Witherspoon
Ralph Gilles There comes a point in the creation of a car where the designers and engineers have to bite the bullet, hold their collective breath, and hope the test car rolling out of production meets their expectations.
For Ralph Gilles, head of DaimlerChrysler Corporation's creative Studio 3, that moment arrived as he opened the door of the prototype Chrysler, a car he and his staff hoped would help rejuvenate the company and boost its effort to differentiate its brands."Dodge and Chrysler are separating themselves into different types of vehicles, with different customers in mind," says the 34-year-old Gilles, winner of this year's Black Engineer of the Year President's Award.
"Dodge is a mainstream brand with an attitude, but Chrysler is more aspirational, more graceful with more high-end products. We're going to a premium market where the main competitors will be Volvos, Audis, and other imports."
Gilles' studio had scored one hit already with its Dodge Magnum, a hot rod with a 340-horsepower Hemi engine masquerading as a family station wagon. They led the track with the 200-mile-an-hour, 500-horsepower Dodge Viper. And his Jeep Liberty had proved to be a successful link between Jeep's comfortable Grand Cherokee SUV and its road warrior Wrangler.
But it was the Chrysler division where they needed to shine. They needed a high-end sedan with a classical look reminiscent of a Bentley; a rear-wheel-drive like the best from Chrysler's heyday; a head-turner engineered soundly enough to be parked next to a Jaguar, Mercedes, or Volvo without embarrassment.
The car, says Gilles, "would redefine us as a car company, and it would be the kind of car the valets would park out front."
What they came up with was the Chrysler 300. "That car was a perfect storm of all our ideas," says Gilles. "That car really resonates."
Car of the Year
And when he sat in the drivers' seat and stepped on the gas "I was almost in tears driving the car. It felt so right. It's one thing to make it look good, but the engineers brought it home."
Critics thought so, too, and Motor Trend Magazine named the Chrysler 300 its Car of the Year for 2005, ahead of 24 competitors including the Porsche 911, Lotus Elise, and BMW 6. Together, Gilles' cars led the way in an amazing turnaround for DaimlerChrysler, whose bottom line went from an $806-million loss in 2003 to a $1.3-billion profit in the first nine months of 2004. In all, 2004 was a banner year for the young artist from Montreal, Canada.
For Ralph Gilles, whose parents emigrated to Canada from Haiti, the creative spark appeared early. He was five years old, visiting his Aunt Gisele on Long Island, N.Y., and, like a lot of kids, drawing what he saw. What differentiated Gilles from the pack at that early age was the fact that his drawings were clear and made sense.
"My aunt saw my sketches," Gilles recalls, "and she turned to her husband and said 'Hey Mike! My Nephew can draw! Give him some paper to draw on."
A Letter to Iacocca
So he began sketching wherever he went, passing dull moments in school with fanciful drawings of cars and other modes of transport. At 15, Gilles wrote a letter to Chrysler head Lee Iacocca, asking what it would take to become a design artist for the giant car company.
"And wow, they wrote me back," he said. "I was so impressed. They wrote giving the different names of colleges they hire from, and that was all I needed."
He was a bit disappointed that the letter came from Neal Walling, then vice president of design, instead of the legendary Iacocca himself. "But I felt a certain loyalty to Chrysler because they wrote me, and it changed my life."
He spent a semester in engineering school in Canada, but decided he'd rather draw.
"Design is creative," Gilles said. "Engineering is like art work, but they're not the same. As designers, we are in charge of the way a car looks and the emotions you get when you look at it. It's different from the calculus and the engineering. It is a different discipline."
So he followed Walling's advice, attending the College of Art and Design in Detroit, which provides about 40 percent of the company's designers, and went to work for Walling after graduating in 1992. It did not take him long to work his way up the ranks, and in 2001 he took over Studio 3, in Auburn Hills, Mich., one of seven Chrysler design studios.
'Living Out Your Dream'
There, they work in tandem with the engineers to create a package.
"We start sketching," Gilles says. "and the engineers come up with how it works, where the wheels are at, where the engine is, and how it fits together. The image is ours.
"You can have the best sketch in the world, but if the package isn't right, it won't drive right."
Gilles equates the design studio with a movie lot. "I direct a studio to draw," he said. "We get together with the other team members and exchange ideas. It's like when you make a movie, and you talk about the scenes in the movie before you film the thing.
"It's like that with cars. No one person designs a car."
With Gilles at the helm, the synergy between the engineers and artists obviously works. But he can't design cars all the time. To escape, he gets away from the office and onto a track to race his red Viper.
Gilles rhapsodizes about the powerful sports car.
"The Viper is low-slung and sensuous with all that engine all over there," he says. "As a young man, it appeals to you. It's like living out your dream."
SORRY
Louise Laroche (2 July 1910 - 28 January 1998) was one of the last remaining survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. It is believed that she, her sister and her father, Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche, were the only people of black descent aboard.
Louise and her family boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg, France on April 10, 1912 as second-class passengers. Because of Titanic's size, she could not fit in Cherbourg's harbour. White Star Line tenders had to transport passengers out to Titanic, and the Laroche's were transported aboard the SS Nomadic.[3]
Shortly after the Titanic struck the iceberg at 11:40 p.m. on April 14, Joseph woke Juliette and told her that the ship had suffered an accident. He put all of their valuables in his pockets, and he and his wife carried each of their sleeping daughters to the ship's deck. It is not known for sure which lifeboat Juliette and her daughters escaped in, although Juliette remembered a countess being in her lifeboat. There was a countess on board the ship, Noël Leslie, Countess of Rothes, who escaped in lifeboat 8, so it is likely that Juliette, Simonne and Louise all escaped the ship on this lifeboat. Joseph died in the sinking and his body, if recovered, was never identified.[4]
Later in the day on April 15, Juliette and her daughters were picked up by the rescue ship RMS Carpathia. Louise and her sister were hauled up to the its deck in burlap bags. On board the Carpathia, Juliette found it very hard to get linens which she could use as diapers for her children. Since there were none to spare, Juliette improvised and at the end of each meal she would sit on napkins and conceal them and once back in the cabin, make diapers out of them.[5] The Carpathia arrived in New York City, New York on 18th, but there was no one to meet Juliette and her daughters, so Juliette decided not to continue to Haiti, but instead return to her family in Villejuif, France. The family returned in May 1912, and it was there that Juliette gave birth to her son who she named Joseph, in honor of his father.[6]
Louise and her family boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg, France on April 10, 1912 as second-class passengers. Because of Titanic's size, she could not fit in Cherbourg's harbour. White Star Line tenders had to transport passengers out to Titanic, and the Laroche's were transported aboard the SS Nomadic.[3]
Shortly after the Titanic struck the iceberg at 11:40 p.m. on April 14, Joseph woke Juliette and told her that the ship had suffered an accident. He put all of their valuables in his pockets, and he and his wife carried each of their sleeping daughters to the ship's deck. It is not known for sure which lifeboat Juliette and her daughters escaped in, although Juliette remembered a countess being in her lifeboat. There was a countess on board the ship, Noël Leslie, Countess of Rothes, who escaped in lifeboat 8, so it is likely that Juliette, Simonne and Louise all escaped the ship on this lifeboat. Joseph died in the sinking and his body, if recovered, was never identified.[4]
Later in the day on April 15, Juliette and her daughters were picked up by the rescue ship RMS Carpathia. Louise and her sister were hauled up to the its deck in burlap bags. On board the Carpathia, Juliette found it very hard to get linens which she could use as diapers for her children. Since there were none to spare, Juliette improvised and at the end of each meal she would sit on napkins and conceal them and once back in the cabin, make diapers out of them.[5] The Carpathia arrived in New York City, New York on 18th, but there was no one to meet Juliette and her daughters, so Juliette decided not to continue to Haiti, but instead return to her family in Villejuif, France. The family returned in May 1912, and it was there that Juliette gave birth to her son who she named Joseph, in honor of his father.[6]
Trina McGee-Davis (born September 6, 1969) is an American actress best known for playing Angela Moore on Boy Meets World.
man i loved her
Dumas M. Simeus, American businessman, former financial analyst for KB Home, former VP at Atari and politician
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you dig deep.did not about her
I'm trying fam ...
I want my kids to be proud of being Black, African, Carribbean and Haitian!!!
Damn all this work make me want to take some night classes
A couple more then I hope the fam keep it up and add ACCURATE profiles
appreciated fam ! respect!
I grew up with Troy and his sister...never heard this mentioned.
I ain't disputing it, but I believe they regular old black folks from GA.
Jessica Lucas
Who is she?
Daphnee Duplaix Samuel
I thought this bitch was Louisiana Creole?
Delisa Newton – American jazz vocalist
04 July 2008
Delisa Newton (1934 - ) nurse, jazz singer.
Born in New Orleans of a Haitian mother and Baptist minister father who left when the child was three.
04 July 2008
Delisa Newton (1934 - ) nurse, jazz singer.
Born in New Orleans of a Haitian mother and Baptist minister father who left when the child was three.
I grew up with Troy and his sister...never heard this mentioned.
I ain't disputing it, but I believe they regular old black folks from GA.
did as much research as i could before posting fam...
Micah LeVar Troy was born on November 18, 1977 in Augusta, GA. His father, Alfred Troy, is a Haitian-American drill instructor turned pastor.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastor_Troy
Pastor Troy Recording Song for Wyclef's Presidential Bid
Atlanta rapper Pastor Troy has announced that he is working on a new song in support of Wyclef Jean's presidential bid. Troy is collaborating with an artist named Haitian Fresh on the song.
"Haitian Fresh and I are doing a song now called 'Fas a Fas' for Wyclef's campaign for President of Haiti. It's gon' be cool, man," the prolific southern rapper revealed.
"Fas A Fas" is the new people's party under which Wyclef Jean is running. According to the movement's website the phrase translates to "A Face, then another Face, and another Face, eventually all becoming an ocean of Faces looking for truth." Though Wyclef's candidacy is somewhat up in the air, there is no doubt that Pastor Troy's support is appreciated by the former Fugee. In addition to the song for 'Clef, Troy also announced that he will be releasing a new Down South Georgia Boys album entitled 'The Return of Cut 3,' the first D.S.G.B. album in over seven years.
Troy, who has more than 20 solo albums under his belt, parted ways with Universal back in 2004. "I'm staying down with the independents man, because it's too pivotal," he explained. "You can't take on a situation that you want if you always in a situation. You got to leave yourself open, so when that deal that you want comes along you can take it. With that being said, we doing our s--- strictly 100% independent."
Look out for Pastor Troy and Haitian Fresh's "Fas a Fas" to hit the net shortly, with D.S.G.B.'s 'The Return of Cut 3' to follow.
Pastor Troy's most recent release, 'King of All Kings' dropped on August 3