| The neighboring French islands Martinique and Guadeloupe specialize in zouk and compas music, both locally made and imported from Haiti. |
| Both bands will be whipping up infectious compas vibes at the Mizik Factory festival in Paris. |
| Tabou Combo, one of the most influential bands in compas history, played a major role in pioneering the sound at home and abroad. |
| Combette's music is hard to describe concisely, but there's Haitian compas, zouk, folk, jazz, bossa nova, soca and reggae in the mix. |
| The crowds came, and they still do: sipping Haitian rum, chatting in French and dancing cheek-to-cheek to the tinny rhythms of compas music. |
| Ti Kabzy's hybrid sound, forged out of their associations with both Haiti and Canada, has helped put compas on the international music map. |
