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Emerante de Pradines Morse
Birth nameEmerante de Pradines
Born(1918-09-24)September 24, 1918[1][2]: 0:11 
Haiti
DiedJanuary 6, 2018(2018-01-06) (aged 99)
GenresHaitian Folk

Emerante Morse, also known as Emerante de Pradines Morse, (born Emerante de Pradines September 24, 1918[3] – January 6, 2018)[4] She was the daughter of Haitian entertainer Auguste de Pradines (better known as Ti Candio or Kandjo),[5][6][7]. De Pradines was a singer, dancer and folklorist.

Early life

Emerante's mother, Amarante Jean Pierre, implored Our Lady of Mount Carmel, patroness of the Carmelite order, to give her a child, a baby girl, "promising that in return she would devote this child to the virgin saint."[1]: 161  Emerante was born when her mother was "on vacation at Rivière Froid".[1]: 163 

Musical and dance career

De Pradines went to Washington, DC, in 1941 as a featured singer and dancer in a troupe led by Lina Mathion Blanchet.[8]: 59  After her return to Haiti, de Pradines performed in a regular concert series at the Rex Theater in Port-au-Prince. She often sang renditions of traditional vodou songs, "then a novelty in Haitian social life".[8]: 59 

De Pradines sang Vodou songs in Creole on the radio when it was dangerous to do so,[9] and was the first Haitian singer to sign a recording contract with a record company.[10] She married Richard M. Morse, a Latin-American scholar and writer from the United States who she met while studying in New York with Martha Graham.[11] Her albums were released internationally, including by Smithsonian Folkways in the United States.[12]

She and her husband had one daughter, Marise, and one son, Richard Auguste.[1] Her son, also known as Richard A. Morse, also became a musician and prominent public figure in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

De Pradines Morse was one of six women profiled in a documentary film by director Arnold Antonin entitled Six Exceptional Haitian Women (Six femmes d’exception).[13]: 19 [14] She was also the focus of a 2017 article in the Journal of Haitian Studies.[1] One commentator wrote that "Given the time in Haitian social history when [Emerante de Pradines] chose to sang vodou songs, popular songs, she stands almost by herself in Haitian history."[15]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Scherpf, Stephanie (2017). "Emerante de Pradines: The Birth of a Legend and the Making of a Tradition". Journal of Haitian Studies. 23 (1): 162–168. doi:10.1353/jhs.2017.0007.
  2. ^ Haitian Women of History |Emerante de Pradines, Episode 9 (accessed 1 July 2017)
  3. ^ https://muse.jhu.edu/article/668039/summary
  4. ^ http://www.loophaiti.com/content/deces-de-lune-des-plus-grandes-danseuses-du-folklore-vaudou-haitien
  5. ^ Richard Morse (2016). 'Pradines, Auguste Linstant de (“Kandjo” or “Candio”)' In: Knight, Franklin W.; Gates, Henry Louis Jr., eds. (2016). Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199935802. Retrieved 5 November 2017. Print ISBN 9780199935796 This biographical article states that Candio was born in Paris, France, on 10 September 1879.
  6. ^ Averill, Gage (1997). A day for the hunter, a day for the prey: Popular music and power in Haiti. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226032931.
  7. ^ "Chapo Ba: Emerante de Pradines". Kreyolicious. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  8. ^ a b Smith, Matthew J. (2009). Red & black in Haiti radicalism, conflict, and political change, 1934-1957. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807894156.
  9. ^ Grech, Dan. "Into Haiti's Heart: Richard Morse Finds His Roots". Princeton Alumni Weekly. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  10. ^ "Morse code: The man behind the amazing Twitter updates from Haiti | Boston Haitian Reporter". bostonhaitian.com. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  11. ^ Romero, Simon. "Richard McGee Morse, 78, Latin America Expert". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  12. ^ Smithsonian Folkways. "Creole Songs of Haiti". Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  13. ^ Hall, Michael R. (2012). Historical dictionary of Haiti. Lanham: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810875494.
  14. ^ Anonymous (June 19, 2017). "Six Exceptional Haitian Women". MEDIA PRAXIS: Integrating Media Theory, Practice and Politics. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  15. ^ Alzuphar, Adolf. "Haitian singer Emerantes De Pradines". zcomm.org. Retrieved 12 November 2017.


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