Nemours Jean-Baptiste was a Port-au-Prince saxophonist and bandleader who, with his Ensemble Aux Callebasses from 1955 onward, popularized compas direct — a modernized, horn-driven dance music built out of Haitian méringue and Cuban-inflected big-band arrangements. Hits like "Ti Carole" made him, in the BBC's words, Haiti's most influential bandleader, and compas became the rhythmic backbone that Haitian and wider Caribbean dance music built on for decades afterward.

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1966

Ti CaroleNemours Jean-Baptiste