Chris BAZILE, is a singer of Kompa, a modern musical genre from Haiti. The author of classics such as “Bagail La Dominem” or “Isabelle” agreed to look back on his musical journey and share his impressions of the crisis that Haiti is experiencing today.

MUSICAL JOURNEY

Born in 1953, Chris BAZILE has “always had music in his blood”. His musical career began in a choir when he was still only in primary school in Petion-ville, a town in Haiti, located in the Ouest department and in the district of Port. -to the Prince.

At that time, singing was a hobby he liked to share with his neighborhood friends. His influences also come from Haitian orchestras such as Tabou Combo or the Dejean Brothers. In 1973, the lack of professional opportunities pushes him to leave Haiti to settle in Boston, in the United States where he will live for more than 30 years. The same year, he joined the Afro-Combo orchestra. Their collaboration will give birth, in 1976, to Stylistique Page 1, an album that will be a hit all over the world.

After 5 years of cooperation, he left this training to become the singer of the Boston group Volo Volo, a position he held until 1991. Together, they traveled through Haiti, France, the overseas departments, Panama, Canada, and the United States. Now retired, Chris BAZILE continues to perform solo and has lived in Pétion-ville for ten years.

CURRENT SITUATION IN HAITI

Witnessing on the spot the chaos which reigns today in Haiti, Chris considers that this situation is due to the inequitable (re)distribution of wealth. A dozen families would share the majority of the wealth while the rest of the people would live in precariousness.

On the political level, these families would organize themselves to elect presidents who were supposed to embody change. However, it seems that governments follow one another and that inequalities persist. Corruption plagues the country, the people suffer from these social injustices and Haiti is today on fire and bloodshed. Denouncing this caste responsible for this feudal system would allow, according to Chris, to get the country out of this immobility which slows it down and handicaps it.

Very attached to his country, Chris considers that it would be necessary “to start from scratch, to rebuild everything by rethinking a political and economic system that is much fairer and more equitable than the one that has persisted for far too long! “.