WESLI PRÉSENTE TIFANE PASKA AND ALEXA CHERELUS - Festival international Nuits d'Afrique 2026
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🇭🇹 Ses débuts, Wesli les a fait il y a plus de 20 ans sur la scène du Balattou, à Nuits d'Afrique. Depuis, sa carrière s’est envolée, ici comme ailleurs, faisant la fierté de tous. Sa présence pour ce 40e anniversaire est une inspiration pour tous les artistes de la relève. Au sujet de son récent album, Makaya (2025), classé parmi les meilleurs albums musiques du monde, La Presse a dit: “Wesli voyage beaucoup sur le plan des sonorités, passant des pulsations électroniques à des styles plus dépouillés, empruntant ici des inflexions de reggae, dansant là sur des rythmes konpa, c’est une entraînante mosaïque musicale qu’il construit morceau par morceau pour former un ensemble convaincant et évocateur”. Lauréat d’un Juno, d’un Félix et du Prix Charles-Cros, figure de proue de la musique haïtienne, ce chanteur et multi-instrumentiste hisse bien haut les couleurs des traditions rasin et twoubadou, orchestrant ses rythmiques banda, rara, petro, nago tantôt de manière acoustique, tantôt de manière électrique, avec des intonations afrobeat et reggae. Pour cette série, il s’invite sur scène avec des artistes emblématiques de la Perle des Antilles.
· Véritable showman à l’incontestable talent de beatmaker, Paska, fort de ses gènes congolais, embrase la scène de manière décomplexée et réinvente les codes de la musique haïtienne en donnant une nouvelle dimension au kompa: pop, internationale et universelle.
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🇭🇹 It’s been over 20 years since Wesli made his Nuits d’Afrique debut on the Club Balattou stage. Since then, his career has soared at home and abroad, making us all very proud. His presence at the 40th anniversary will definitely serve as an inspiration to up-and-coming artists. Regarding his latest album, Makaya (2025), rated among the Top 10 World Music Albums, La Presse noted that “Wesli explores a wide range of sounds, shifting from electronic beats to more stripped-down styles, drawing on reggae influences here, dancing to konpa rhythms there; the result is a lively musical mosaic that he builds piece by piece to create a compelling and evocative whole.” Winner of a Juno, a Félix, and the Prix Charles-Cros, and a leading light in Haitian music, this singer and multi-instrumentalist proudly carries the torch for rasin and twoubadou traditions, combining their banda, rara, petro and nago rhythms, both acoustically and electrically, with Afrobeat and reggae elements. For this series, he invites some of the most iconic artists from the Pearl of the Antilles to join him on stage.
· A true showman and beatmaker with undeniable flair, Paska draws on his Congolese heritage to set the stage ablaze with explosive energy as he refashions Haitian music, adding pop, international and universal dimensions to his kompa groove.
· Véritable showman à l’incontestable talent de beatmaker, Paska, fort de ses gènes congolais, embrase la scène de manière décomplexée et réinvente les codes de la musique haïtienne en donnant une nouvelle dimension au kompa: pop, internationale et universelle.
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🇭🇹 It’s been over 20 years since Wesli made his Nuits d’Afrique debut on the Club Balattou stage. Since then, his career has soared at home and abroad, making us all very proud. His presence at the 40th anniversary will definitely serve as an inspiration to up-and-coming artists. Regarding his latest album, Makaya (2025), rated among the Top 10 World Music Albums, La Presse noted that “Wesli explores a wide range of sounds, shifting from electronic beats to more stripped-down styles, drawing on reggae influences here, dancing to konpa rhythms there; the result is a lively musical mosaic that he builds piece by piece to create a compelling and evocative whole.” Winner of a Juno, a Félix, and the Prix Charles-Cros, and a leading light in Haitian music, this singer and multi-instrumentalist proudly carries the torch for rasin and twoubadou traditions, combining their banda, rara, petro and nago rhythms, both acoustically and electrically, with Afrobeat and reggae elements. For this series, he invites some of the most iconic artists from the Pearl of the Antilles to join him on stage.
· A true showman and beatmaker with undeniable flair, Paska draws on his Congolese heritage to set the stage ablaze with explosive energy as he refashions Haitian music, adding pop, international and universal dimensions to his kompa groove.
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Club Balattou Officiel, 4372 Boulevard St-Laurent, Montréal, QC H2W 1Z5, Canada, Montreal
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