Producer - Haiti Observer Blog

He is an all-time star in the music industry. Jocel Almeus is also a video producer who has achieved a great deal of achievements in his lifetime. He was born and raised in Haiti where he established his interest in the music industry and where he also got to acquire the knowledge on how to go about the production of videos. He has for a very long time been involved with a great deal of productions where he has shown how much he can do and the heights he can reach.

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Prakazrel Samuel Michel, also known as Praz, is one of the most celebrated recording artists of a lifetime. He has a Haitian origin where there are many who claim he is pure Haitian while others claim he is American. This is possibly because he has a Haitian origin despite the fact of being born and raised in America.

He is cousin to the famous and all time recording and performing artist Wyclef Jean. He is one the members to the music group the Fugees which is one of the oldest singing groups that over the years has gained popularity across all the regions of the world. Praz was born in Brooklyn in New York where he cultivated his interest in music.

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Sha Money XL is one of the few Haitian American artists that have been able to make their dreams easily come true. He was born in 1975 in Haiti but later moved with his parents to the states where they settled in New York. He is a very prominent figure having been able to easily market and bring the famous artists 50 Cent to the mainstream.

Sha Money XL is known of having facilitated most of the big names in the music industry to get to where they currently are. He is thus a very powerful and interesting person with a lot of good advice to most of the upcoming artists. There are a number of labels and records he has greatly facilitated in bring up such as the 50 cents label and some of the snoop doggy dog`s records.

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Shaun Shiller Fequiere, who goes by the stage name Kangol Kid because of his penchant for Kangol hats, is a Haitian-American music producer, song composer, dancer, and emcee. Born in Haiti, he came to the U.S. with his family, and grew up in Brooklyn.

Shaun Shiller Fequiere, Kangol Kid began his music career in the rap group UTFO, break-dancing, and success came quickly to them, with their first single Roxanne, Roxanne, winning them the "Best Rap Group" award in 1988, at the Urban Music Awards. Soon they were making appearances on Soul Train and The Phil Donahue Show, and also had the distinction of being the first rap group to perform at the Apollo Theater. UTFO opened for such acts as Hall and Oates and Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin of The Temptations. By 1987, their album Lethal, featuring rockers Anthrax, became the #1 rap album in the U.S.

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Yves Mondesir is a Haitian hip-hop-rap DJ, who goes by the name Whoo Kid, and whose trademark "Whoooooo Kiiiiiid", graces all his mixtapes. He was born in Brooklyn and raised in Queens Village, New York. He has a long discography of mixtapes, dating back to 2000, beginning with his hosted re-mix of "50 Cent Is the Future".

He has produced his mixtapes under several record labels: G-Unit, Shady Ville Entertainment, Money Management Group, and Dream Big Ventures. Artists he has recorded mixtapes for, include rap and hip-hop acts 50 Cent, Eminem, Snoop Dog, Wyclef Jean, and Young Jeezy.

Whoo Kid's controversial mixing style has one music critic complaining his mixtapes are so simplistic. Therefore he can issue them on a weekly basis. By definition, re-mixes as they are also referred to, layer parts of other artist tracks to create an original sound, often with a motif.

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