The Haitian band CaRiMi received the Legacy Award at the 2025 Caribbean Music Awareds, which aired on BET on Friday, September 12, 2025. The award recognized the group’s significant influence on the evolution of Konpa music and its role in elevating Haitian music globally.
Gary Didier Perez, music icon dies at 59
Gary Didier Perez, the music icon, who helped launch Zenglen into prominence before he went on to form the band Ozone passed away today around noon while on life support. He was 59. Perez had been battling complications from diabetes and chronic kidney failure for many years, enduring dialysis, the amputation of a leg, an in October 2023, open-heart surgery. In recent months, he was under hospice care as his […]
