Méringue
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Music of Haïti | |
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Carnival | Cadence rampa |
Kompa | Kadans |
Méringue | Mizik rasin |
Rara | Zouk |
Timeline and Samples | |
Francophone Caribbean | |
Martinique and Guadeloupe - Haïti - Louisiana | |
Other islands | |
Anguilla - Antigua and Barbuda - Aruba and the Dutch Antilles - Bahamas - Barbados - Bermuda - Cayman Islands - Cuba - Grenada - Jamaica - Dominica - Dominican Republic - Montserrat - Puerto Rico - St Kitts and Nevis - Saint Lucia - St Vincent and the Grenadines - Trinidad and Tobago - Turks and Caicos - Virgin Islands |
Méringue (also mereng) is a kind of Haïtian music related to twoubadou and the Dominican merengue. It is a guitar-based style (unlike the primarily accordion-based merengue), and is generally sung in Haïtian Kréyòl.