Michel Martelly, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Michel Martelly

President of Haiti, musician

Date of Birth: 12-Feb-1961

Place of Birth: Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti

Profession: politician, singer-songwriter, musician

Nationality: Haiti

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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About Michel Martelly

  • Michel Joseph Martelly (French pronunciation: ?[mi??l ??z?f ma?teli]; born 12 February 1961) is a Haitian singer and former politician who served as the President of Haiti from May 2011 until February 2016.
  • He is from CĂ´te-de-fer, a commune located in the South East of Haiti.
  • Martelly was one of Haiti's best-known musicians for over a decade, going by the stage name Sweet Micky.
  • For business and musical reasons, Martelly has moved a number of times between the United States and Haiti.
  • When travelling to the United States, Martelly mostly stays in Florida.
  • After his presidency, Martelly returned to his former band and sang a carnival meringue entitled "Bal Bannan nan" (Give Her the Banana), as a response to Liliane Pierre Paul, a famous Haitian female journalist in Port-au-prince.As a singer and keyboardist, "Sweet Micky" is known for his Kompa music, a style of Haitian dance music sung predominantly in the Haitian Creole language, but he blended this with other styles.
  • Martelly popularized a "new generation" of compas with smaller bands relying on synthesizers and electronic instruments.
  • From 1989 to 2008, Martelly recorded over a dozen studio albums and a number of live CDs.
  • As a musician and club owner in Haiti in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Martelly became associated with the neo-Duvalierist Haitian military and police, including figures such as police chief Michel François, and he agreed with the 1991 Haitian coup d'Ă©tat against Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
  • In 1995, after Aristide had been restored to office, Martelly's name appeared on a hit list of coup supporters, and he stayed away from Haiti for almost a year.
  • During this time, he released a song, "Prezidan" (on the album Pa Manyen), "an exuberant ditty that called for a president who played compas".
  • However, he did not run for political office until 2010, when he became a candidate for President of Haiti. After the catastrophic earthquake, Martelly won the Haitian general election, 2010–11 for his party Repons Peyizan (Farmers' Response Party), after a run-off against candidate Mirlande Manigat.
  • Martelly had come in third in the first round of the election, until the Organization of American States forced Jude CĂ©lestin to withdraw due to alleged fraud.
  • Martelly assumed his position of the President of Haiti on 14 May 2011 after RenĂ© PrĂ©val retired to his home in Marmelade.
  • His election campaign included a promise to reinstate the nation's military, which had been abolished in the 1990s by Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

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