Kadans

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Music of Haïti
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

Kadans is a Haitian Creole music genre, which started off in Haïti and developed in the French islands. In the 1970s, a wave of Haïtian immigrants to Martinique brought with them the kadans, a sophisticated form of music that helped unite all the former French colonies of the Caribbean by combining their cultural influences. Derived from jazz music. The group Exile One is credited with the formation of this new music in the middle of the 20th century.