Frantz Casseus
Frantz Casseus was a Haitian-American guitarist and composer born on 14 December
1915 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He constructed his first guitar at age 12 and
studied European classical techniques as an autodidact before receiving
instruction from Werner Jaegerhuber. He achieved professional recognition for a
musical style incorporating Haitian folk forms and made his concert debut in
Port-au-Prince in 1941. After relocating to the United States in 1946, he
collaborated with Harry Belafonte, playing on the studio recording Calypso
(1956) and contributing the track “Merci Bon Dieu”...
