{"id":42552,"date":"2017-10-30T18:58:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T16:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/melissa-laveaux-covers-haitian-folk-song-nan-fon-bwa\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:38:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:38:30","slug":"melissa-laveaux-covers-haitian-folk-song-nan-fon-bwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/melissa-laveaux-covers-haitian-folk-song-nan-fon-bwa\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00e9lissa Laveaux covers Ha\u00eftian folk song &#8216;Nan Fon Bwa&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9845 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Melissa-Laveaux.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"811\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Melissa-Laveaux.jpg 811w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Melissa-Laveaux-759x543.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Melissa-Laveaux-661x473.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Melissa-Laveaux-465x333.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Melissa-Laveaux-375x268.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist of Haitian descent an<span style=\"color: #333333;\">nounces <em>Radyo Siw\u00e8l,\u00a0<\/em>her second album on french label <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/no-format\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No Format<\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<div>After doing research on United States occupation of Haiti for her upcoming album\u00a0<em>Radyo Siw\u00e8l,\u00a0<\/em>M\u00e9lissa Laveaux pays tribute to folk songs made during this period.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cNan Fon Bwa\u201d is a cover which originally comes from an Ha\u00eftian folk song by Frantz Cass\u00e9us, who was born in 1915. An ode to nature, marked by festivity, exhilaration and Yanvalou dancing, it is a tribute to the richness and hope of youth. For M\u00e9lissa, this song is the anthem of &#8220;<i>if I can\u2019t dance, it\u2019s not my revolution&#8221;.\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Listen to \u201cNan Fon Bwa\u201d :<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/345235209&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Find this track in our PAM playlist on <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/panafricanmusic\/playlist\/5Au5WzqKtuYMaqK1zT88Qv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deezer.com\/fr\/playlist\/1878285902\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deezer<\/a>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">M\u00e9lissa Laveaux&#8217;s new album\u00a0<em><strong>Radyo Siw\u00e8l<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0will be out 2 February 2017 via\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?post_type=post&amp;s=no+format\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No Format<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9847\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cover20171023-61851-pth12e-min.jpg\" alt=\"Melissa Laveaux Nan Fon Bwa\" width=\"3000\" height=\"3000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cover20171023-61851-pth12e-min.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cover20171023-61851-pth12e-min-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cover20171023-61851-pth12e-min-1010x1010.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cover20171023-61851-pth12e-min-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cover20171023-61851-pth12e-min-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cover20171023-61851-pth12e-min-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cover20171023-61851-pth12e-min-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cover20171023-61851-pth12e-min-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cover20171023-61851-pth12e-min-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cover20171023-61851-pth12e-min-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cover20171023-61851-pth12e-min-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cover20171023-61851-pth12e-min-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>Read next:<\/em>\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/focus-label-no-format\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Label Focus: N\u00d8 F\u00d8RMAT!<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist of Haitian descent announces Radyo Siw\u00e8l,\u00a0her second album on french label No Format. After doing research on United States occupation of Haiti for her upcoming album\u00a0Radyo Siw\u00e8l,\u00a0M\u00e9lissa Laveaux pays tribute to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":9845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[6270,6520],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42552"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=42552"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}